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DESCENDANTS 

OF 

Joseph and Mary Dodge Campbell 
IN AMERICA. 



IN WHICH IS PRESENTED BIOGRAPHICAL 
SKETCHES OF ALL THOSE WHO HAVE 
ATTAINED ADULT AGE IN THE LINE 
OF DESCENT, AS WELL AS AC- 
COUNTS OF THOSE PERSONS, 
WHO BY MARRIAGE HAVE 
BECOME RELATED TO 
THE DODGE AND 
CAMPBELL 

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INTRODUCTORY. 

For this compilation no otlicr claim is made than a 
design to put into a compact and accessihle form all the in- 
formation that now seems to be attainable respecting those 
descentlants of Joseph and Mary (DiKlge) Campbell, of 
Stopford, Yorkshire, England, who came to and settled in 
the Unitetl States in the first half of the Nineteenth Cen- 
tury. The primary purpose was to gather for preserva- 
tion to future generations of the family all the data that 
diligent seircli and persistent investigation could, at this 
time, obtain, which has been woven into the stories of the 
individuals to which such matter had personal relation. 

In those cases where marriage has brought into the 
Campbell [Dodge] line other families, an effort has been 
made to designate the parents of such individuals in order 
that to those desiring to earn,- back those lines will be afford- 
ed starting points from which such investigations can be 
had. To that end, copious footnotes have been made, by 
which the reader is referretl to the authorities bearing upon 
the family line of the individuals whose sketches are found 
in these pages. 

THE COMPILER. 
Chester, P.\., March 4th, 1907. 



THE DESCEINDAINTS 

— OF- 

JOSEPH AND MARY DODGE CAMPBELL 
IN AMERICA 

(i) JOSEPH CAMPBRLL, of Stockport. England, 
was born at Camphelltown, Argilsliire, Scotland, July ifith, 
1772. Two of liis brotliers were in tlie Ivast India Com- 
pany's Military service, one holding the rank of Colonel 
and the other that of Captain. A sister (tradition in the 
American Branch of the family gives her name as Fanny) 
married an otlicer in the East Indian Company's Army. 
Joseph Campbell, by his parents' desire, had designed to 
read law and practice as a barrister, but, the father dying, 
the mother's means were so cri|)plctl that the young man 
himself refused to become a burden upon his family dur- 
ing the seven long years rec|uired in preparing for the bar, 
and the subsequent waiting in building up a clientage. 
Hence he decided to become a tailor, at that time one of 
the most remunerative of trades. For some years prior 
to the beginning of the eighteenth century, he found em- 
ployment in London as a cutter and fitter for the Cold- 
stream Cuards. the King's personal life guard. It was 
while in that city, in 1801, he met, at a hotel where he was 
boarding. Mary Dodge (bom June 23rd, 1780), daughter 
of Robert Dodge ( Iwrn January 7th, 1751), and Marv', his 
wife (born January 3rd, 1758), who had accompanied her 
father, then on a business visit to London. In those days, 
such a journey was a formidable undertaking, the cumber- 
some stage coach consumed nearly a week to cover the 
distance from St<xkport to the metropf)lis. The acquaint- 
ance between the young couple ripened into love. Joseph 
Campbell followed the young gjrl to her northern home. 



where, in 1802, they were married at the parish church of 
St. Mary, Stockport. In the meanwhile. Joseph Campbell 
established himself as a "tailor to merchants," or, what in 
the United States is now known as "a wholesale clothing 
manufacturer," in Park, near Church Street, Stockport. 
He died April ist, 1858, and was interred in the family 
vault at St. Mary Church, April 7th, 1858. 

To Joseph and Mary (Dodge) Campbell were born 
the following children : 

(2) John Campbell, born Dec. 31, 1803, died May 
25, 1885; married Ann Hallam. 

(3) James Campbell, liorn -\ug. 12. 1805, died May 
14, 1862; married Angelina Garsed. 

(4) Jane Campbell, born May 17, 1807, died March 
9, 1888; married Moses Green. 

(5) Joseph Campbell, born April 4, i8«9, died Oct. 
A, 1831. 

(6) Eliza Campbell, born Feb. 23. 181 1, died Sept. 

24, 1835- 

(7) Mary and .\nn Turner Campbell, died Sept. 13, 

(8) Benjamin Campbell, born June 6, 1816, died 
April 4, 1825. 

(9) Margaret Campbell, born Sept. 23, 1819; mar- 
ried John Shcdwick. 

(2) JOHN CAMPBELL, eldest son of Joseph and 
ALary Dodge Campbell, was born at Stockport, England, 
December 31st, 1803. Early in 1824, he married at St. 
Mary's Church, Stockport, Ann, daughter of Joseph and 
Mary Hallam, of Yorkshire. ( i ) 

John Campbell learned the trade of merchant tailor- 
ing with his father, and when of age, acquired an interest 
in the business, to which he succeeded in 1858, on the death 
of the senior partner. His wife, Ann, who was boni in 

(i) A slab in St Paul's Church yard, Pachwood, England reads : 
IN REMEMBRANCE 
Of 

Joseph Hallam, who departed this life March 20th, 1863. Aged 83 years. Mary, 
wife of Joseph Hallam who died November 22, 1857, in the 76th year of her age. 
Also, Ann Campbell, dau;.;htur of the above, died fAny 20th, 1885, aged 81 years. 
Also, John Campbell, her husband, died .Hay 25th, 1S85, aged 81 years. 



iSo3. (lic<l May 2otli. 1S83. The scvcriiip of marital rcl.v 
tiuii ill wliicli tlioy liad livol sixty years, was such a severe 
shock to tl)e husbaiul, tliat live days tliercaftcr, May 25th, 
he also tlied. To John and Ann ( llallnm) Campbell, were 
lKirn ei^ht children : 

(10) Sarah Camphell. horn Nov. 21, 1824; married 
Ralph Harnett; died Ai)r. 14, 1891. 

(11) George Camphell, horn March 10, 1827. 

(12) losepli Camphell, horn ncccmbcr J.^rd, 1S29. 

(13) Mary Camphell, horn March 2t„ 1832, died 
August lo.iSgo. 

(14) Benjamin Camphell, horn January 26, 1837. 

(15) Mar,y:aret Camphell, horn January 26, 1837. 

(16) Jane Eli/.a Cami)hell. horn May 4, 1839. 

(17) John Campbell, horn June 27, 1843. 

(3) JAMES CAMPBELL (i). second son of Jo- 
seph and Ann (Dodge) Campbell, was born at Stockport, 
England, August 12, 1805. At an early age lie entered a 
mill in his native town, where he acquired a thorough prac- 
tical knowledge of manufacturing cotton cloth in all its 
branches. Energetic and self-reliant, when he attained his 
majority, he deciiled to seek fortune in the new world, con- 
fident that a great future for cotton manufacturing was 
presented in the United States. Possessed of but little 
means, he first obtained employment with John S. Phillips, 
who was then operating the cotton mill ( since burnetl. May 
20. 1873), which had been erected on the site of the old 
forge at Rockdale, in Aston Township, Delaware County, 
Pennsylvania, and later became the manager of the Penns- 
grove (Glen Riddle) Mills, then operated by James 
Houghton. He continued in that position until 1837, when 
Houghton removed to Groveville, N. J. Although urged 
to accept the management of the factory at the latter place, 
Campbell declinc<l. deciding to begin manufacturing on his 
own responsibility. The preceding year he had married An- 
gelina Garsed. His father-in-law, a manufacturer of cotton 
machinery, then I(»cated at Rockdale, offered to sell him, 
on aihantacrciuis tcrm«. six looms which he had built for 



III Ashmc.iJ ;• ii:j>i"ry Hi i if. iw.ire County, page 397. 



parties who had become bankrupt and were unable to meet 
their oblii^ations. Campbell accepted the offer and rented 
a vacant building at Pennsgrove, in which he set up the 
looms. In this humble way, James Campbell began his 
career as a cotton manufacturer, an occui)ation in which he 
subsequently acquired distinction, earning a prominent 
place in the industrial history of the City of Chester and 
County of Delaware. 

Hon. George G. Leiper, then reputed as one of the 
wealthiest men of this section, in the spring of 1838, pro- 
posed to cliange and materially enlarge the bark mill at 
Leiperville, Ridley Township, Delaware County, and adapt 
it for a cotton factory, provided Mr. Campbell would 
agree to lease the premises for a term of years. The pro- 
position was accepted. The enterprise proving eminently 
successful, and Mr. Campl)ell rapidly accumulated a for- 
tune, as wealth was then measured. In the issue of the 
Delaware County Republican for August 6th. 1847. ^P~ 
pears the following description of the mills at Leiperville, 
and the benefit which had come to the neighborhood in 
consequence of Mr. Campbell's enterprise : 

"On visiting Leiperville a few days ago, we were 
struck with the spirit of improvement visible on every 
hand. Within the last few years, a large cotton factory 
has been erected and a substantial row of well-built and 
comfortable stone dwellings for the accommodation of the 
operators employed in the mill. The factory is owned by 
Judge Leiper and occupied by Mr. James Campbell, one of 
the most industrious and enterprising men engaged in the 
business in this county. We found the factory in full ope- 
ration, and the hands busily engaged in different branches 
connected with the business. The building is of stone, 
three stories in height, and filled closely with machinery 
from the ground floor to the attic, some of which is of 
the most approved character. There are in the mill 1008 
spindles. 1104 throttles and y2 looms. We observed a 
mule of 456 spindles, which was an entirely new piece 
of machinery to us, and we believe the only one of the 
kind in this country. It is similar to those used in large 
manufacturing establishments in England, the pattern of 
which was recently brought here by Mr. Campbell. One 



of the looms was cniplnved on a beautiful and substantial 
article for table-cloths, which needs only to lie seen to l>c 
admired. The princiixil articles manufactured are tick- 
ings, table-cloths and baprgiug, or tent cloths, of which 
sixty thousand yards are turned out monthly. There arc 
sixty-five persons employed in the ditTcrent departments 
and the whole moves with the precision of clock work. 
The waqcs : Spinners receive $30 i)cr month, weavers $18. 
The females ai)i)ear happy and contented and exhibit 
bright and pleasant countenances. Mr. Campbell is a prac- 
tical manufacturer, studies the wants and comforts of those 
al)out him and his presence in the factory, lending a help- 
ing hand when required, endears him to those in his em- 
ployment. 

■'The various departments of the mill are superin- 
tended with skill and judgment. Samuel Turner has 
charge of the cloth room. J. W. Dobbins of the looms. 
William Price of the tiirottles and Jonathan Taylor of the 
card room." 

The distance at which the mills were located from 
the railroad and water means of transp<irtation, was a 
serious obstacle to the growth of the plants at that locality. 
The raw cotton and the finished goods must be hauled 
many miles over indifferent roads, which in the winter 
season were almost impassable. All of the fuel used in 
creating power to drive the machinery, had to be carted 
from Chester, thus atlding largely to the cost of conduct- 
ing the business at that jxiint. Hence, for several years, 
Mr. Campbell had in contemplation the erection of a fac- 
tory in Chester, and the removal of his business to that 
borough. ( I ) 

(:) The Delaware County Republican for December 17th. 1847 announced 
the purch;ise o( the Columbia Hotel in Chester bv i>\r. Campbell anJ stated that 
"he inttnils tu convert (the builJin;.;! into a dwellini; house next spring. We 
undcrst.inJ he conicmplatcsestaMishinK a c jtlon factor>' in our midst. We shall 
welcome .\\r. Campbell amon.< us as a gentleman o( indiistn.- and enterprise." A 
fire which occured December eth, is.i8 ;it the cotton (actbr>- at Leipervllle. by 
which the dyeinn house was totally destroyed, doubtless was an additional 
reason urj;in>; Mr. Campbell to nnke'a cliani;e in the location o( his mills. The 
Delaware County Kepublic.n ol December ii;th. 184S. in an account o( the hre 
says— "The alarm was Riven in tlie borouRh (Chester) and the engine in charge 
ol Council rep.iired to the spot, too late, however, to be of any great service. 
Ttie fem:ile portion o( the population o( Leiperville and the neighborhood rendered 
essential ser\ice n preveniini; the tire from communicating to the factory, and to 
tnein great credit is due for their exertions." 



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In 1850, after the county seat liad been removed to 
Media, at the sale of the old County property in Chester, 
on December 9th, of that year, he purchased the old jail 
and two lots to the West, facing on Fourth, or Work 
Street, the property including half a block facing on Mar- 
ket Street, between Fouth and Fifth streets, and extending 
about one hundred and twenty feet in depth along Fourth 
Street, the price paid being $3520. Prior to that date, 
Mr. Campl)ell, in 1849, had purchased a lot in the rear of 
the prison, on which was thai erected a large frame build- 
ing which had been used as a bowling alley by the Dela- 
ware County Hotel (now known as the Swan Hotel), 
which he altered to receive looms. This enterjirise had 
been put in practical operation before he acquired owner- 
ship to the old jail property. The Delaware County Re- 
publican, in its issue of February ist. 1850, has the fol- 
lowing notice of that change which was then underway: 

"Improvements in Chester. — Appearances indicate 
that in the spring our borough will take a start in the 
march of improvement. Our friend, James Campbell, of 
Leiperville, has made arrangements for the manufacturing 
of cotton goods in the building back of the jail. He will start 
with fifty power looms, driven by a ten horse-power steam 
engine, and will soon increase the number to one hundred. 
In the mill will be the first looms ever set in motion on 
the spot first occupied as the Capital of Pennsylvania and 
Mr. Campbell will be the Columbus of manufacturing in 
Chester." 

It was not until nearly two months had elapsed be- 
fore the frame structure was completed and outfitted with 
machiner)'-. On Wednesday, March 26tli, 1850, "The Pio- 
neer Factory," (i) for such was the name gi\en it by Mr. 

(i) The DeKnware County Republican for April 5th, 1850, has the following 
local item — ■•PionL'er Factory. The new manufacturing establishment projected 
in the Borou;;h liy Mr. James Campbell, of Ridley, was put in practical operation 
last week and the puffing of the steam engine and the music of the shuttle are 
daily heard in our midst, causing an unciasintj; wonder, why a town pussessing 
so many and rare advantagi-s as our own was not years ago converted into a 
great manufacturin.; mart. Mr. Campbell is about to extend his building and in 
a short time will luu e one hundred looms in active operation. The machinery 
used is handsomely finished and of a superior kind. We have examined a speci- 
men of the goods made by it and predict that they will find a ready sale in what- 
ever market they may be offered." 



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CanipbdI. was put in oiicration. Tlie late James Led ward, 
who was then in Campbell's employ, related this circum- 
stance connected with the first startinfr of that mill. When 
the machinery began to move, a number of the inhabitants 
of Chester and the employees of the mill, broke, as of one 
accord, into a cheer, after which one of the number l>e- 
gan to sing-, "Hail, Columbia," when all present joined in 
tlie patriotic song. ( i ) 

After Mr. Campbell purchased the jail and work- 
house, he tore down the northern wall of the old struc- 
ture and built out in that ilirection, so that his mill, retain- 
ing the name "Pioneer Mills." extended over to and in- 
cuded the prison yard walls. In the new addition, he kept 
the Jacquard looms, and thereon were woven quilts and fab- 
rics of a like character of work. The Sheriff's house, part 
of the old jail facing on Market Street, he retained after 
radical alterations and improvements as a dwelling house, 
in which he resided during the winter season for several 
years, from 1852 to the spring of 1854. The great dif- 
ficulty he had to contend with was the scarcity of water 
to run the engines and for other uses in the mill. Much 
of it he had to bring from Chester Creek in carts espec- 
ially made for that use. To overcome the annoyance and 
expense, Mr. Campbell sunk a number of wells in the old 
jail yard, but with little or no success. (2) 

In 1856, Mr. Campbell, seeking increased facilities 
for manufacturing cotton goods, agreed with John Lar- 
kin, Jr., to rent and outfit a large factory, if Mr. Larkin 
would convert a sash mill and machine shop, which he had 
erected at Broad and Crosby Streets, into a cotton mill. 
That plan demanded large additions to the buildings al- 
ready standing. The proposition was carried into effect, 
but Mr. Campbell, unable to acquire a rigiit of way to 
Chester Creek, was still confronted with a lack of water to 
fill the boilers, for use in the dyehonse, and for other pur- 
poses in the coniluct of the bu-^iness. To overcome that 



(i> AshmeaJ's Histon- o( Delaware County, Page 3/6. .\shmeaJ's Histori- 
cal Sketches of Chester. pai;es 41 anj 61. 

(a) AshmeaJ's Histor>' of Delaware County, page 306. Ashmead's Histori- 
cal Sketches of Chester, page 61. 



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difficulty he sought rehef b}- sinking artesian wells. The 
crude appliances of that day were inadequate to accom- 
plish the end in view. After the wells were sunk to con- 
siderable distances, the bits jammed and could not be ex- 
tracted. Misfortune after misfortune followed the at- 
tempt until many thousands of dollars were expended in 
efforts which brought no relief. The business outlook at 
that time was unpropitious. In the latter part of August, 
1857, tlie Ohio Life and Trust Company suspended with 
liabilities amounting to $7,000,000. That disaster usher- 
ed in the great financial panic of that year. Commission 
houses to whom iSlr. Campbell had consigned goods be- 
came bankrupt. In their fall they involved him, and fin- 
ally caused his failure. Most of the outstanding accounts 
proved utter losses. In addition, Mr. Campbell's health 
l>egan to give way under the strain and in the end, the ac- 
cumulations of a lifetime of diligent activity were swept 
away. The mills passed into the ownership of General 
Robert Pattison, who leased them to Mr. Campbell, 
with an understanding that they could be repurchased 
should he be in condition to do so. The outbreak of the 
Civil W'ar immediately resulted in disturbing business con- 
ditions, while the high price of raw cotton, paralyzed the 
textile manufacturing industries. After several years of 
almost unintermitting illness, during which his indomni- 
table energy never forsook him. James Campbell died ]May 
14th, 1862, just at a time when the wave of industrial 
prosperity had begun to swell enormously, as an effect of the 
war. In the issue of the Delaware County Republican for 
May 23rd, of that year, appears the following: 

"Obituary. — It was with an emotion which far sur- 
passes the sorrow of an ordinary social bereavement, that 
we were called upon, last week, to announce the death of 
James Campbell. Although the impaired condition of his 
health for many months past, had warned his friends that 
he was drawing near the dark verge of life, yet it was 
hard for those who know him, to feel, when his death was 
announced, that the genial, cheerful and kindly spirit we 
all delighted to number among our acquaintances, had been 
taken from us forever. Of the throngs of people who 



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assenil)le(l at liis funeral ami crowdcil tlic rhurch-yard on 
last Satiinl.-iy. to pay tlio last liihiitc of respect to liis meni- 
orv. there were many a manly conntenance that betokencfl 
the genuine phase of heart-fcit sorrow and attested the 
sense of a loss, that is amouij the hardest, th.at men are 
called on to bear. 

"The admiration and applause of our fellowmen, for 
skill or intellectual power, or the achievement of material 
prosperity, is of easy attainment, or at least, or much more 
frequent occurrence, compared with that more ditTicult and 
more precious estimation, which consists in the sincere, 
wami and manly love of our daily associates. 

"We all know his active and enterprising character, 
and how as a public-spirited citizen, James Campbell, was 
always forward in every good word and work for pros- 
perity of this Borough ; and as a business man, of his un- 
wearing industry and unflagging energy amidst the many 
discouragements which confronted him in later years. As 
an employer of labor, whilst no man could have a more 
genuine regard for its intrinsic dignity nor less disposed 
to give to it the aspect of favor or patronage: but to ac- 
cord its just relation of work and wages, he was always 
regarded by the many hundreds who worked for him. as a 
just and upright, but kind and considerate employer. 

"But it was in his personal relations to our commun- 
ity, and the shock to our warm social affections that we 
most deeply feel our loss. He was a man of whom it can 
truly be said, that what in the sharp judgment of the 
world which makes success and personal prosperity, the 
standard of merit and esteem, would be considered faults 
in him, proceeded in a great degree from a courageous 
and enterprising nature, and a generous and unselfish 
spirit. 

"In the presence of the grief which comes from the 
loss of such a man, we should deem exaggerted eulogy as 
an impiety : and we feel how much we are saying that here, 
where the actions of his daily life would be most closely 
scani-.ed, no man could be found with a truer, tenderer, 
gentler nature, joined with a generous courtesy, and a 
frank and manly courage, which combined to make him 



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that rare character — a man on whom tlie regards of his 
fellowmen rested with a sincere and unfeigned love. A 
nature such as this, that in the cold clashings of jarring 
interests, and the selfish pursuits of our lives, can call 
forth, without effort so much of tlie love of those around 
him, is surely no common one, and hundreds of manly 
hearts attest in their memories of a conscious bereavement 
how much loftier attrilnites of manhood there was in the 
dear friend who has been taken from us." 

James Campbell was a charter memljer of Leiperville 
Lodge, No. 263, I. O. of O. F., and its Treasurer, Septem- 
ber II, 1847, when the Lodge was instituted. When Camp- 
bell removed his mills to Chester, the organization decid- 
ed to change its location to that place, where it erected a 
hall at Broad and Crosby streets, which was dedicated Oc- 
tober 17, 1853. (i) He was a charter member of Chester 
Lodge, No. 236, A. F. & A. M., and in 1855 was a mem- 
ber of Borough Council. Mr. Campbell was repeatedly so- 
licited to accept the ofifice of Chief Burgess of Chester, but 
declined to serve in that capacity. He was a vestryman 
of St. Paul's Church, Chester, at the time of his death, an 
office he had held for more than ten years. 

ANGELINA GARSED, daughter of John Gar- 
sed (died May 14, 1855,) and Mary Turner (born at 
Swiftplace Alills, England. February 14, 1797, died at 
Chester, Pa., December 15, 1876), was born at Swift- 
place Mills, Soyland, Yorkshire, England, December 20, 
1815. When a child of five years, in 1820, she ac- 
companied her parents to the United States. Nearly a 
hundred days had been required in the passage, when the 
vessel reached the dock at Baltimore, IVIaryland. In that 
city, the father, for two years, followed his trade of joiner, 
but in the latter part of 1822 he removed with his family 
to Philadelphia, where he embarked, with limited capital, 
in cotton manufacturing. Eight years later, John Garsed 
located at Rockdale. Delaware County, Pa., where he be- 
gan manufacturing power looms. It was while a resident 
of that village, his daughter, Angelina, met James Camp- 

(i) Ashmead's History of Delaware County, page 419. 



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bell, to whom she was married, in riiiladclphia. November 
29th. 1836. Her father, who had disposed of some looms 
to his son-in-law, transferred that acconnt to his daughter, 
Mrs. Camiiheil, and tliat debt was dischar},'ed by the hus- 
band setting aside the proceeds from the sale of the waste 
in the mill. With that money, Mrs. Campbell, in 1855. 
purchased a lot on Broad Street. Chester( where the Third 
Presl)\terian Church now stands), on which John I^arkin, 
Jr.. had erected a rectory for St. Paul's Episcopal Church. 
Mrs. Campbell, at her husband's death, was left with a 
large depcntlent family and with very limited means. Her 
remarkat)le business ability, excellent management, and 
sound judgment, stood her in good stead at that time when 
inflated prices ruled for even the necessities of life, con- 
sec|uent on the abnormal demand created by the Civil War. 
She succeeded in keeping her family together and educat- 
ing the younger children. Her life was that of a model 
wife and mother. I""or many years before her death she 
was a member of St. Paul's Church. Chester. 

.Angelina Garsed Campbell died February' 6. 1887. and 
was buried by the side of her husband in the family lot in 
Chester Rural Cemetery. 

To the marriage of James and Angelina (Garsed) 
Campbell, were born nine children : 

(18) Jane Eliza Campbell, born August 28, 1837; 
married to William G. Price. 

(19) Marv Campbell, born .April 11, 1840; married 
to E. T. Robb.' 

(20) Ellen Campbell, born Septcml>er 15, 1842, died 
January 8, 1844. 

(21) Emma Campbell, born December 5, 1844: mar- 
ried to H. G. Ashmead. 

{22) Joseph Dodge Campbell, born .April 13. 1847, 
died Tanuar>- 20, 1849. 

(23) .Annie Dodge Campbell, born August 31, 1850; 
married to Capt. F. S. Baker. 

(24) John Garsed Campbell, born March 31. 1852; 
married Katharine R. Harper. 

(25) Fannie .Amanda Campbell, born June 3. 1854. 

(26) James .A. G. Campbell, born February 19, 1858; 
married Elizabeth Hubley Mowry. 



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(4) JANE CAMPBELL, eldest daughter of Joseph 
and Mary Dodge Campbell, was born at Stockport, Eng- 
land, May 17, 1807. On October 17, 1830, then in her 
twenty-first year, she was married to Moses Green, at Ec- 
cles' Church, near Manchester. Preposessing in person, vi- 
vacious, affectionate and considerate of others, she was 
a general favorite among her relatives and friends. Chil- 
dren she attracted by her gracious manner and kindly con- 
sideration. In all the domestic relations she filled the 
measure of a well-rounded life. Jane (Campbell) Green 
died at Philadelphia, March 9, 1888, in her eighty-second 
year. 

Her husband, MOSES GREEN, was a son of George 
and Ann Green. His father, George Green, was born in 1760, 
at Charlesworth, Mattrand, Derbyshire, England. He re- 
moved to Stockport, where he established himself in cot- 
ton spinning. But the outbreak of the French Revolu- 
tion and the consequent disturbances in trade which fol- 
lowed thereon, brought to George Green, as to many others 
financial disaster. He married Ann, daughter of Charles 
and Martha Stopford (the latter, born 1760, died March 
iSth, 1906; the former, bom in 1764, and died July i6th, 
i8i2).(i) To that marriage was born seven children who 
attained adult age. George Green, an accomplislied musi- 
cian, when his business failed established a School of Mu- 
sic at Stopford, of which as principal, he attained much 
distinction and was eminently successful in his chosen pro- 



(i) Charles and Martha stopford are buried in St. Peter's church yard. 
Stopford. 

George Green's children were 

George, who was killed by an accidental fall from a ladder. 

John, whose children — George, Ellen, Charles and .lohn Green were living in 
England in 100 (. 

Robert, who had a son John (dead) and a daughter. Eliza Green, living in 
England in iqo^. 

Moses, who married Jane Campbell. 

Elizabeth, who married Thomas Birth, and removed to the United States. 

Mary, who married Daniel Holl.md and removed to the United States. 

Fantiv, who married William Walker, and remii\ed to the United States. 

The Green family is said to come originally from Hathersage. Derbyshire, 
England. There is a stor\' connected with the old tower of Hathersage Church 
in which Moses Green's father is a pr(iminent figure. Tradition a.sserts that 
"George 0' the Green" one of "Robin Hood's .^'lerry Men," who is buried in the 
Hathersage church yard, is the remote ancestor of the Green f.imily of that 
section. He was of Sa.xon lineage and opposed the domination of the Normans 
in England. His bow was preserved and shown at the church for many years. 



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fession. CienrjTe (Irceii aiul liis wife holli died in 1833, 
\-ictims of tlic cliolera wliich that year visited luif^land as 
a scourge. Tliev died the same day and were buried in 
the same grave. 

Afoses (Ircen was iinrn at Stockport, Chesliire. Eng- 
land, July i.^tli, 1805. He was educated at Stockport, 
leaving school to avail iiimself of an opportunity to ac- 
(juire a theoretical and jiractica! know'ledge of mechanical 
engineering. 

In 1847, James Campbell, Mr. Green's brother-in-law, 
visited England to purchase improved cotton manufactur- 
ing machinery. Mr. Campbell spoke of opportunities pre- 
sented for business enterprise in the United States, and de- 
clared, in his opinion, that Mr. Green with a growing fam- 
ily, would do well to give the suggestion careful consider- 
ation. More than a year elapsed before Moses Green fin- 
ally decided to venture on a change so radical. Early in 
1849, he embarked for the United States, leaving his wife 
and family in England until he had prepared a home for 
them in the New World. He found remunerative employ- 
ment with James Campbell, who was then arranging to es- 
tablish a cotton factor}' — the Pioneer Mills, in Chester. In 
the fall of 1850, Mrs. Jane Green and her children, with 
the exception of the eldest son, William H. Green, came 
to Philadelphia, where her husband was then employed 
as a mechanical engineer, and in which city he had made 
a home for his family. Early in 1857, Moses Green and 
his S(jn, John J. Green, established a grocery on Third 
Street, west of Market Square. The business was not such 
as either of the parties desired, and two years later they 
engaged in manufacturing. In 1862, when John J. Green 
became proprietor of the Continental Cotton Mills. Moses 
Green became interested in the enterprise. In 1878, he 
removed with his family to Philadelphia, where he died 
October 3rd, 1879. in his seventy-fifth year. 

To the marriage of Moses and Jane (Campbell) Green 
were born the following children : 

(27) Wliliam Henry Green, born Aug. 3rd, 1831, 
married Elizabeth Chalmer Mackenzie; died Mav ist 
1893- 



(28) Sarah Green, born at Stockport, England, Oct. 
24, 1833; died at that town, December, 1840. 

(2q) John Jacob Green, born September 4th, 1835, 
inarried Elana T. Roberts, and (bed December 2nd, 1877. 

(30) James Campbell Green, born November 9th, 
1837, died Nov. 25. igoT. 

(31) Mary Jane Green and Jane Green, born Febru- 
ary' 1st, 1839; Jane Green died at Stockport, August 31st, 
1849, aged 10 years. 

{7,2) Sarah Amelia Green, born at Stockport, Eng- 
land, .^pril i6th, 1843, died at Chester. Pa., 1862. 

(TiT,) Moses Henry Green, born January 19th, 1846, 
married Mary Amelia Brannan. 

(9) MARGARET CAMPBELL, daughter and 
youngest child of Joseph and Mary Dodge Campbell, was 
born at Stockport, Cheshire, England, September 25. 1819. 
She was educated in the school of her native town. When 
but a few months beyond her eighteenth year, on Decem- 
ber 19, 1838, she was married in the Emanuel Methodist 
Church, in Manchester, England, to John Shedwick. That 
union, an unusually congenial relationship, cox'ered a period 
slightly exceeding fifty-seven years of happy wedded life. 
On December 19, 1888, John and Margaret (Campbell) 
Shedwick celebrated, at their residence. No. 3408 Race 
Street, Philadelphia, the fiftieth anniversary of that mar- 
riage. Active, vivacious and observing, Mrs. Shedwick, 
who, during the last thirty-four years of her life, had travel- 
ed extensively in the United States and Europe — was an 
e.xceedingly interesting conversationalist, drawing on an 
abundant fund of information anrl incidents which were 
the outgrowth and associated with her numerous excur- 
sions into out-of-the-w'ay places she !iad \-isited and the odd 
and peculiar persons she had met in journeying about on 
both sides of the Atlantic. Eminently of a religious tendency 
she united with the First Presbyterian Church, of Mantua, 
West Philadelphia, Pa., and later with the First Presby- 
terian Church, of Chester. 

Margaret Shedwick survived her husband nine years, 
dying at the family residence in West Pliiladelphia, March 
toth, 1905, aged eigty-five years, three months and eigh- 



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teen ilays. llcr remains were interred in llic family lot in 
Mount Moriah Cemetery. 

J<MI.\' SI I KD WICK was horn near Manclicster, Lan- 
castershire, Knjjland. May iC). 1816, He was an expert en- 
graver in wood, co|)per and l)rass. lie liad given es()ecial 
study to tlie engraving of wooden blocks for printing wall 
paper, the only process then known by which such results 
could be produced and soon became noted among the trade 
for his good work and clever designs. The o|)i)ort unities in 
England for a man of energy and ambition were circum- 
scribed, hence Mr. Shedwick decided to try fortune in the 
New World, and with this purpose in view, came to the 
United States in 1843. locating in Phiiadeliihia. where he 
found immediate cmplo\aiient with Mr. Howell, then one of 
the leading manufacturers of wall paper. The following year, 
1844, he sent for his wife and two children, who had re- 
mained in England while the father was preparing a home 
for them beyond the sea. W'hile with the Howell Company, 
John Shedwick made and engraved the first rolls from 
which wall paper was printed, and he designed the patterns 
and engraved tiie rolls on which the paper for a vestibule 
were printed which formed the feature of Howell's Exhibit 
in the Eirst World's Fair, at London, in 1851. Later, he 
became designer and engraver for William Curry, whose 
factory was located at Twenty-second and Callowhill 
Streets. In 1849. Mr. Shedwick purchased a lot of land 
in the village of Mantua — now absorbed under the general 
title. West Philadelphia. He designed, erected, and su- 
pervised the dwelling which he built on that lot, as he did 
that of an adjoining house. 

A year or so after, he sold the house he had completed 
in 1850 and had occupied about a year, at a good profit and 
gradually his attention was directed to the opportunities 
that were presented in building enterprises in thv." growing 
suburbs west of the Schuylkill Ri\er. From one house he 
began building rows of dwellings for which he found ready 
sale and finally was compelled to abandon his trade as a 
wall paper and other engraver. 

Just prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, early in 
1861, Mr. Shedwick associated his son, James Campbell 



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Sheihvick, in the business, under the partnership title of 
John Shedwick & Son. At tliat time, the firm was en- 
gaged in erecting a large number of dwellings at Seven- 
teenth and Fitzwater Streets, which later was supplemented 
by a like enterprise in West Philadelphia, in the .section 
north of Market street. The enormous rise in the cost of 
materials and labor — a direct consequence of the war — re- 
sulted in bringing about sluggishness in building opera- 
tions. When peace came, in 1865, its direct effect was to 
increase trade uncertainties in Philadelphia and a disposi- 
tion to await the drift of events. Chester was then still 
feeling the stimulating influences of its manufacturing 
boom. 

In that condition of affairs the firm decided to remove 
its field of energy to the latter city. With this purpose in 
view, John Shedwick & Son, in 1865. purchased land, and 
many dwelling houses and stores in various parts of the 
town, aggregating several hundred in all, were erected. 
Much of the ground was in the ownership of well-to-do per- 
sons who rejected all offers to sell a^•ailable lots at reasonable 
figures, a condition that seriously handicapped the firm in 
acquiring sites in the neighborhood and in localities which 
gave promise of an increase in value. Early in t868, 
the firm was awarded the contract for building the Penn- 
sylvania Military Academy, at Chester, which was des- 
troyed in the disastrous fire of February 16, 1882. To the 
surprise of competitors, the structure was completed in the 
late summer of that year pemiitting the institution to occupy 
the Academy at the opening session in September of 1868. 
The next spring the firm decided to return to Philadelphia, 
when it began large operations at Thirty-seventh and Bar- 
ing Streets and adjoining localities. John Shedwick, ap- 
preciating the rapid growth in value of land in that neigh- 
borhood, entered into a contract for the purchase of a large 
tract from the Baring family, of London. 

After many buildings were under way, it became a 
question whether the .American agent of the English bank- 
ers had not exceeded their powers. Mr. Shedwick immediate- 
ly sailed for Europe, and secured from Baron Baring con- 
firmation of title to the land. During his stay in London, 



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Mr. Shcdwick was the giiest of the hanker, and was en- 
tertained at his palatial conntry residence near tiie metro- 
pohs. In other deals with the l'>arin{js, Mr. She<lwiek treat- 
ed directly witli the mvners, visiting- London for that pur- 
pose and always met with a warm and hearty welcome 
from the memhers of the g;reat hanking house with whom 
he came in contact. John Shcdwick made twenty visits 
to Europe on husiness and pleasure and on several times 
he was accompanied hy his wife and memhers of his family. 

In 1885, tlie lirm of Job.n Sliedwick & Son closetl ac- 
tive husiness operations, altliough John Shedwick, individ- 
ually, as did his son, James C Shedwick, acquired large 
interests in Prospect Park, a residential town in Delaware 
County, Pa., which had heen plotted hv |ohn Cochran in 
1875. 

John Shedwick was a meml)er and an Elder of the First 
Preshyterian Cliurch. of Chester, Pa., and held a like rela- 
tion to the North Minster Preshyterian Church, of West 
Philadelphia. Me was for many years trustee of the Pres- 
hyterian Hospital, of Philadelphia, a position he held at his 
death. He was a member of the Independent Order of Odd 
Fellows, and of the Society of the Sons of St. George, 
Philadelphia. Shedwick Street, in West Philadelphia, is 
named in his honor. 

John Shedwick died at his residence. No. 3408 Race 
Street, West Philadelphia, January 3, 1896, aged seventy- 
nine years, seven months and eighteen days. He is buried 
in the family lot in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia. 

To the union of John and Margaret (Campbell) Shed- 
wick were born : 

(34) James Campbell Shedwick, born September 24, 

1839- 

(35) John Shedwick, born at Stockport, England, 
November 3, 1841, died at Stockport. August 7, 1842. 

(36) Joseph Shedwick, born at Stockport. September 
23, 1843, died at Philadelphia, August 16, 1861. 

(37) Mary Jane Shedwick, born in Philadelphia. Jan- 
uary I, 1846, died at Chester, Pa., March 2, 1868. 

(38) Emma Shedwick. bon in Philadelphia, July 15, 
1848, died at Philadelphia, August 3, 1852. 



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(39) William John Shedwick. l)orn in Philadelphia, 
October 7, 1851. 

(40) George Washington Shedwiclc, born in Phila- 
delphia, August 16, 1854. 

(41 ) Henry Clay Shedwick, born in Philadelphia, 
August 16, 1854, died at Philadelphia. July 10, 1886. 

(12) JOSEPH CAMPBELL, son of John and Anne 
(Hallum) Campbell, was born at Stockport, Cheshire, 
England, December 2t„ 1829. He had scarcely attained his 
majority when he married Martha Needham. On Septem- 
ber 8, 1852, accompanied by his wife and two children, he 
sailed from Liverpool, arriving at Philadelphia on the 5th 
of October following. His uncle, James Campbell, was 
then successfully operating cotton factories at Leiperville 
and Chester, and at the latter place Joseph Campbell found 
employment as superintendent of one of the departments 
in the Pioneer Mills. When James Campbell removed his 
family permanently to Chester, in 1855, his nephew, Jo- 
seph, was given entire control of the mills at Leiperville 
until 1858, when he and Joshua Garsed removed the ma- 
chineiy from that factory and set it up in the Broad Street 
Mill, Chester (which formerly stood on the site of the 
present Larkin Grammar Scliool), then being equipped by 
James Campbell. In 1857, Joseph Campbell's wife, Martha 
Needham Campbell, died, leaving him with the care of 
one child. 

Tn i860, he iriarried Adelaide Turner (i). Early in 
that year he and Charles L. Powell formed a partnership 
in the manufacturing of woolen goods. The firm purchas- 
ed a building which Perciphor Baker had erected at Sixth 
and Welsh Streets, Chester, which they outfitted with ma- 
chinery and gave the plant the name "Union Mills," a title 
that was suggested by reason of the political condition im- 



(r) Mrs. James Campbell, who by her marriage had became the Aunt of Joseph 
Campbell, was a (.laughter of John aiiJ A\arv Tuiner-Garsed. Mrs. Garsed was 
a daughter of Richard Turner by his first wife, .Wary Whitelv. while Mrs. Joseph 
Campbell was a daus^httr of Richard Turner bv his second wife. Johanna Mellin. 
By this marriase, James Caiiipl'fll, 1 Uncle'of Joseph Campbell.) became the 
nephew of his nephew and Joseph Campbell, (nephew of his uncle. James 
Campbell,) became his uncle's uncle. This odd condition of relationship came 
about from the fact that .Vlrs. James Campbell's mother and Joseph Campbell's 
second wife, were half sisters, children bv the same lather but born of different 
mothers. 



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mediatclv prcccdincf tlic otitl)rcak of tlie I\cI)eIlion. Tlic 
ciUcrprisc was reiiuinciative, but at tlic conclusion of the 
war, when the National Government no longer was a pur- 
chaser of goods in large (juaiitities to maintain an army in 
the field, values shrunk rapidly. The outlook was so dis- 
couraging that in i86g, the firm sold the plant to William 
Shaw and William Powell, who continueil the business 
until the mill was destroyed by fire a year or so later. In 
1869, Joseph Cami)bell accepted the snpcrintendency of the 
Arlington Mills, at Wilmington, Delaware, where he re- 
mained until 1876, when he was given full charge of the 
Arkwright Mills, at Manayunk. Philadelphia, which 
WaitzfeKler & Co., of New \'ork. were running on cotton 
plaids and ginghams at a large profit. In 1882, owing to 
heavy speculations and serious losses on raw cotton, 
WaitzfeKler & Co. failed, carrying down with them the 
four large cotton factories they controlled. Joseph Camp- 
bell, shortly thereafter, secured with John B. Rhodes & 
Brother, at Aston Mills, Delaware County, the position of 
clerk of weavers' accounts and cloth examiner, a place he 
retained for fifteen years. As age crept on, his eyesight 
became impaired and finally he underwent an operation for 
cataract, which was eminently successful. 

MARTHA NEEDHAM, first wife of Joseph Camp- 
bell, was born at Chesterfield, Nottinghamshire. Englaiul. 
June 3, 1832. She was the daughter of Samuel and Ann 
Needham. Her father was a brass and iron founder of that 
town. She was not eighteen when she became the wife of 
Joseph Campbell, the marriage taking place at the Catlie- 
ilral Church. Manchester, England, January 6, 1850. She 
was a pretty lass, but frail in health and falling into a de- 
cline, she died at Chester, Pa.. September 11, 1857, when 
but a few months over twenty-five years. She was buried 
in St. Paul's Churchyard. To the marriage of Joseph and 
Martha (Needham) Campbell were bom five children: 

(42) Mary Elizabeth Campbell, born at Stockport, 
England. Octover 29, 1850, died at Chester, Pa., April 17, 
1855- 

(43) Jane Eliza Campbell, born at Stockport, Eng- 
land, died at Chester, Pa.. January 25, 1858. 



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(44) James Campbell, born at Chester, Pa., Novem- 
ber 3, 1858, died in that town. April 11, 1854. 

(45) John Needham Campbell, born at Leiperville, 
Pa., June 3, 1855, died at the .same village August 10, 1855. 

(46) Harr}' Garsed Campbell, born at Leiperville, 
August II, 1856. 

ADELAIDE TURNER, second wife of Joseph Camp- 
bell, and daughter of Richard Turner and his second wife, 
Johanna Mellin, was born at Swift Place, Soyland, York- 
shire, England, October 24, 1832. In 1851, then a pretty- 
girl of not quite nineteen years, she accompanied to the 
L'nited States, her nephew, Richard Garsed (thirteen years 
older than his aunt), who had visited England to purchase 
machinery for his cotton mills at Frankford, Philadelphia 
County. She was twenty-eight years of age when she was 
married to Joseph Campbell. November 13, i860, at St. 
Clement's Church. Philadelphia. Adelaide Tvu'ner Camp- 
bell died at Rockdale, Delaware County, Pa., February 20, 
1905, and is buried in Calvary Church Cemetery, Rockdale. 
To the marriage of Joseph and Adelaide (Turner) 
Campbell, were born five children : 

(47) Bessie Turner Campbell, liorn at Chester, Pa., 
April 24, 1862. 

(48) Ellwood Dearing Campbell, born at Chester, 
Pa., November 26, 1864. 

(49) Cora Garsed Campbell, born at Chester, Pa., 
February 12, 1867. 

(50) Adelaide Campbell, born at Chester, Pa., Feb- 
ruary 6, 1870. 

(51) Jessie Amanda Campbell, born at Manayunk, 
July 31, 1875. 

(18) JANE ELIZA CAMPBELL, daughter of 
James and Angelina (Garsed) Campbell, was born at 
Rockdale, Delaware County, Pa., August 28, 1837. She 
was educated at Friends' Female Seminary, Sharon Hill, 
and at Aston Ridge Seminary, then conducted by Rev. Ben- 
jamin Huntingdon. She became seriously ill near the close 
of the last term at the Seminary and for that reason could 
not remain to graduate with the class of that year. On 



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Tamiary i8. i8f>o. she was married at Cliester, in the family 
homestead, tlie site i»l the Third l'resl)yteriaii Chiircli, to 
W'ilMam CIray Price. Mrs. Trice was one of tlie incorpora- 
tors of tlie Che.ster Hospital, an organizer of the New Cen- 
tur\' Clul). of Cliester, and is a memher of the Delaware 
County Historical Society. 

WILLIAM (iU.W PRiCE(i) was horn in Chester, 
March 4, i8j8. He was a son of Major Samuel .Mdrich 
Price and Sarah (Bickhani) Price. In the paternal line he is 
in the si.xth generation, a lineal dcscaiidant oi Peter .Mdrich, 
a prominent otVicial in the time of the Dutch domination 
of the Delaware, or South River settlements. {2) In the 
maternal line he is of the Bickham family, of Southwark, 
Philadelphia, and of the Wade family, who were among the 
earliest F.nglish settlers at I'pland, and who entertained 
William Penn on his first visit to the colony. 

The residence t)f his Grandmother Price is still stand- 
ing at Trainer and was used as the headquarters of General 
Gaines when the L'nited States .Army was encamped back 
of Marcus Hook in 1814, prepared to repel the tlircjitenetl 
invasion of the British under General Ross. 

Mr. Price was educated at the public schocols of Ches- 
ter and Philailelphia, and when merely a lad be entered a 
general store at Rockdale and later that of John G. Dyer, 
in Chester. 

In the winter of 1848, John Marshall discovered gold 
in California, and the news occasioned an exodus of young 
men to the Pacific Coast. Mr. Price, stirred by the stories 
of the hour, decitled to tempt fortune in the new-found El- 
dorado. In April, 1849, he sailed from Philadelphia on 
the brig Meteor, Captain Henry Smith, for San Francisco. 
On the outbound voyage, the vessel stopped at Rio de Jane- 
rio, Brazil, and there Mr. Price was a giiest of the firm of 
Ma.xwell, Wright & Company, at that time the largest ex- 
porters of coffee in the world. Through that influence he 
u.i- nrcsented to the Emperor, Dom Pedro and the Em- 



, . , tliugraphical and Histoncal Cyclopedia of Delaware Cuuiity, Fa. Page 
339. 

(a) Proceedings of the Delaware County Historical Societv, vol. i, pane 17; 
also, "Jacob Airicks and his nephew •Peter' Alricks" by Edward' A. Price. Paper 
.X.XII Historical Society o( Delaware, Wilmington, 1898. 



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press, and dined witli the royal couple at the palace. He 
remained in Rio about a fortnight, when the Meteor sail- 
ed for Valparaiso, Chili. At that place Mr. Price was 
tendered a position in the ship chandlery house of Walsh & 
Xisson, which he accepted, and remained there for several 
months. Then the news from the gold fields of California 
aroused his interest anew, and taking passage on the barque 
Adelaide, Captain George Eyre, after a stormy passage, 
reached San Francisco. There he joined a prospecting 
party which, in its journeyings. discovered Salmon river 
and Gold Bluff. Later he was of the party which prospect- 
ed on Queen Charlote's Island, British America, and other 
points along the Pacific Coast. In the lengthy sojourn on 
the island he was in constant association with the Indians, 
learning much of their habits and customs. As the party 
of which Mr. Price was a member, were the first white 
men to make more than a passing visit to that land, he saw 
the Aborigines as few people have had the opportunity to 
do, and when in a reminiscent mood, many were the inter- 
esting stories he would relate of that period in his adven- 
turous life. 

Mr. Price was in San Francisco during the period of 
the Vigilant Committee's reign in that city; although not 
a member of the organization, was a witness to the drastic 
measures resorted to by the better element of the town to 
rid the municipality of the dangerous criminal classes which 
theretofore had defied legal authority. 

Returning to Valparaiso, he was tendered the posi- 
tion of cashier in the English house of Ravenscrofif, Herm- 
anos & Company, at Copiapo, Chili, which he accepted, re- 
maining in that employment for two years. 

In 1854, he returned to Chester, "rounding the Hom" 
for the second time when homeward bound. In 1855, with 
his brother, John C, he embarked in brick manufacturing, 
the firm being J. C. & W. G. Price. During the Civil War, 
in the fall of 1862, when the militia of the State of Penn- 
.sylvania were called to repel the threatened invasion of the 
State by General Lee, William G. Price was commissioned 
Second Lieutenant of Company K, Tenth Regiment, and 
was honorably discharged after the battle of Antietam had 



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lialted the Confeileratc advance. Apain in the early sum- 
mer of iSf)3. wlien Lee ajjaiii threattiied tlic State witli in- 
vasion, lie was c(>nimissit>ncil Second Lieutenant of lOin- 
pany A. Thirty-seventh Pennsylvania Regiment Emer- 
gency Troops. These organizations were mustered into 
the service of the United States, and their presence at 
Grcencastle and other joints along the border counties had 
a very important iiearing upon the ultimate success of the 
Northern army in defeating tlie purpose of Lee's Gettys- 
burg campaign. In 1867, he was electc<l a member of City 
Councils from the South Ward, a jxjsition he resigned in 
1869, when General Grant appointed him postmaster of 
Ciiester. While a member of Councils he was one of the 
board under whose direction the con.struction of the first 
water works of Chester were undertaken and completed. 

Mr. Price was an active member of W^ilde Post, No. 
25, Grand .\rmy of the Republic. 

Me dietl at his residence, No. 310 West Broad Street, 
Chester, early Weilnesday morning, November 14, 1906, 
after a brief illness which quickly developed into pleuro- 
pneumonia of an aggravated form. His remains were in- 
terred in the Price family lot in Chester Rural Cemetery, 

To the marriage of William Gray and Jane Eliza 
(Campbell) Price were born the following children: 

(52) Lillian Campbell Price, born July 31, died Oc- 
tober 5, 1866. 

(53) Edward Augustus Price, born at Chester, Sep- 
tember 2, 1864. 

(54) William Gray Price, Jr., bom at Chester, March 
2^. 1869. 

(55) Howard Campbell Price, born at Chester, April 
15, 1872. 

(56) Lewis Eugene Price, born July 31, 1875, died 
April 24, 1877. 

(19) ^L•\RY CAMPBELL, daughter of James and 
Angelina (Garsed) Campbell, was born at Leiperville, 
April II, 1840. She was educated in private schools of 
the neighborhood, until at the age of thirteen she became 
a pupil of the "Aston Ridge Seminan*'," of which Rev. B. 
S. Huntingdon was principal, and Maria L. Eastman, as- 



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sistant, graduating therefrom in 1S57. She was married to 
E. T. Robb. October 27. 1864, at' Chester, Pa., to which 
place her parents had removed. Mary Campbell Robb is 
a charter member of the New Century Club, of Chester, Pa. 

The grandfather of E. T. Robb was Alexander Robb, 
a Scotchman, born at Aberdeen, who, for many years, was 
a captain in the British Merchant Marine. On one of his 
voyages from Glascow to Annapolis, Nova Scotia, he met 
Miss Abigal Tupper. a relative of Martin Earquhar Tup- 
per, the author of "Proverbial Philosophy." Returning to 
Nova Scotia he married her and settled in that province, 
where his eldest son, John Alexander Robb, was horn on 
June I, 1792. 

Shortly after the death of Alexander Robb, his widow 
and children removed to New York City, where his son, 
John Alexander Robb, served an apprenticeship at ship- 
building and became familiar with all the details of that 
industry. During the war of 1812 he enlisted in the 
United States Army, saw considerable active service and 
was honorably discharged at the conclusion of hostilities. 
He located in Baltimore, Maryland, where he established 
a shipyard, which subsequently became noted for the fast 
sailing \-esseIs constructed by him, and his yard had no lit- 
tle influence in earning world-wide reputation for the "Bal- 
timore Clippers." Frederick Douglass, the distinguished 
negro diplomat and orator, when a lad, for several years 
worked as a caulker in Mr. Robb's yard, and after the 
Civil War, meeting Mr. Robb on some public occasion, in 
Baltimore, in conversation he recalled the incident to the 
memory of his fomier employer. 

In 1 818, John A. Robb married Cornelia, daughter 
of Amos Cheney, a ship builder of Kingston, New York. 
Her father was subsequently appointed Superintendent of 
the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He died in 1832, during the 
great cholera epidemic of that year, his body being car- 
ried to the cemetery by the workmen in the yard, notwith- 
standing the protest of the then Commandant. Mrs. Cor- 
nelia Robb's grandmother was Maria Westervelt, of the 
old Knickerbocker family of that name. Her husband, 



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James Ramsey (i), cf New Jersey, an Enplislmian l)y 
birth, diiring tlie Revolution, sided witli tlie Crown. He 
was the owner of large (Ituiring mills in Westchester Coun- 
ty, on the Hudson River, in the "Neutral Ground." the 
scene of Cooper's story. "The Spy." Maria Wcslcrvelt's 
father, an ardent Whig, became so incensed at his son-in- 
law's ix)litical opinions, to which the wife became a con- 
vert, that he disinherited his daughter. At the conclusion 
of the war, accompanied by his family. Riunsey went to 
Sbelbourne, Nova Scotia, and there his daughter Maria, 
who became the wife of Amos Cheney, was born. 

ELIAKIM TUPPF.R ROBB. son of John A. and Cor- 
nelia (Cheney) Robb. was born in Baltimore, Md., March 
8, I S3 1, and educated in private schools of that city. He 
entered as an apprentice the Vulcan Works, the large ma- 
rine engine building establishment of Murray & Hazle- 
hurst, of Baltimore, one of his fellow apprentices being 
the late Irving Murray Scott, of San Francisco, dis- 
tinguished as the builder of tlie noted battleship Oregon. 
Throughout their lives a warm personal friendship existed 
between Mr. Scott and Mr. Robb. 

^\'hen Ross Wynans contracted with tbe Czar Nich- 
olas I. to build and equip the railway from St. Petersburg 
to Moscow, Mr. Wynans was anxious that Mr. Robb should 
accept a responsible position in that work, but owing to 
home attachments he declined tbe offer. For eleven years 
he was in charge of the draughting department of the 
Vulcan W'orks, a place he resigned in 1856 to accept a po- 
sition as draughtsman under General M. C. Meigs (Unit- 
ed States Army), who had control of the extension of the 
United States Capitol at Washington. D. C. Early in 
1861. he came to Chester and bad charge of the draught- 
ing department of Reaney, Son & Archibold. During that 
time the double-enders men-of-war "Wateree," "Suwa- 
nee," and "Shamokin," and the monitors "Sagamore" and 
"Lehigh" were built at the yard, which later, under the 
ownership of John Roach, acquired world-wide distinction. 
Two of these vessels were lost the same year and in time 

■ ■■ ' ■' ! ii;e s'io. says: 

•'R.i his fjinily o( 

three , -:_ -i. ,_ . ; . ■ : 1." 



3° 

of peace. The "Suwanee" foundered in Treadwell Pas- 
sage, California, June 9, 1868. The "Wateree" was strand- 
ed hy a tidal wave at Arico, Peru, August 13, 1868. 

In 1866, Mr. Robb had charge of the draughting depart- 
ment of Miller & Allen's Engine and Boiler Works, at 
Broad and Potter streets, Chester, Pa., continuing there 
until the firm of Eccles, Thorns & Company, sugar refiner- 
ies, of which Mr. Robb was a member, was organized, in 
1868. For fourteen years the Canton Sugar Refinery, of 
Baltimore, was operated by the firm very successfully, until 
a change in the tariff laws, together with a combination of 
the largest and wealthiest refineries in the United States, 
brought about disaster to the smaller operators who were 
obliged to discontinue the business because of the new 
conditions existing. 

In 1883, Mr. Robb returned to Chester and for a time 
was connected with the Otto Gas Engine Company, of 
Philadelphia, but in 1888 was associated with the late 
Lewis Miller as draughtsman in constructing "Miller's 
Hydraulic Cotton Presses." When the Pcnn Steel Cast- 
ing Company's shops were erected under Mr. Miller's su- 
pervision, Mr. Robb prepared the original plans for the 
building and had charge of the draughting department of 
the shops. After the death of ]\'Ir. Miller, in 1892, he took 
charge of tlie draughting department at the Vulcan Works, 
Chester, and when that enterprise was incorporated he 
was elected its secretary and designer. In the latter capacit}', 
Mr. Robb was frequently called upon to develop the ideas 
of inventors and others not familiar with mechanics. Mr. 
Robb is a patentee of several in\entions in connection with 
hydraulic presses and other mechanical devices. He pos- 
sesses a fund of wit and humor, is a musician of ability 
and exceedingly well read in English literature and the 
sciences. In religion he is notably conversant with the 
writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, comprehending the 
theory and religious teachings of the New Church as well 
as the theology of other church organizations. He is a 
Mark Master Mason, but in recent years has not been ac- 
tive in the general movements of the order. 
Three chiklren were born to this union : 
(57) Mary Campbell Robb, who was born in Ches- 



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tor. Pa.. Octol)cr 26, 1865, died in Raltimore. Md., January 
8, i8Sj; buried in Loudon Hill Cemetery. Baltimore. 

(58) Jennie Rohh, born November 19, 1867. 

(59) Eccles Donald Robb. born January 10, 1880. 

(21) EMMA CAMPBELL, daughter of James and 
Ang-elina (Garsed) Campbell, was born at Leiperville, Del- 
aware County. Pa., December 5, 1844. Her primary edu- 
cation was received in a private school, then kept by Henry 
L. Donaldson, at the tollgate where Bullcn's Lane inter- 
sects with the old Southern Post Road, and she pfraduated 
from the Chester Seminary for Young: Ladies, of which 
Rev. George Hood was principal. October 26, 1881. she 
was married to Henry (haham Ashmead, at her mother's 
residence, No. 421 Broad Street. Chester. 

Mrs. Ashmead is a member of St. Paul's Episcopal 
Church, a charter member of the New Century Club, of 
Chester, and a member of the Delaware County Historical 
Society. 

HENRY GRAHAM ASHMEAD(i) is a direct de- 
scendant of John Ashmead, born at Cheltenhatn, Goucester- 
shire, England, in 1648, and who emigrated, with his wife, 
Mary Courier, to Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1682; of 
Captain John Rush, commanding a trm^p of horse in Crom- 
welTs Army (great grandfather of Dr. Benjamin Rush, the 
Signer) ; of Samuel Sellers, of Darbyshire. England, who 
settled in Upper Darby, now Delaware County, in 1682; 
of Philip Yarnall, who settled in Edgmont, in 1683: of 
Henry Gibbons, who settled in the same township, in the 
same year; of William Mower, who first located at Salem. 
N. J., and in 1685, removed to Marcus Hook. Pa.: of John 
Grubb. who was a resident of Upland — now Chester — prior 

(11 For further accounts of Mr. Ashme.id see National Encyclopedea of 
Americ.in Biography, vol. 4. pat;e 93 ; Bionnphical and Historical Cyclopedia, 
of Delaware County, Pa., pace 318; Who's Who in Pennsylvania, page 18 
For information as to Ashmead family see Martin's History of Delaware County, 
page 440; Genealogical and Personal A\emoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, 
vol. 2. page m3; Vovages of Capt. John .Ashmead, written bv himself (privately 
printed 1; Twining's Travels in America in 17^?-^: A Bio>;raphical Sketch of Cap- 
tain Juhn Ashmead, hy his grandson. Joseph .Ashmead Clay, 18S0, for private 
circuUtion," Memoir of Isaac .Ashmead. to which is attached a fami'y pedi- 
gree, and Rich .>\en of Philadelphia Fortv Years Ago, written bv Thompson 
westcott, published in Philadelphia Sunday Republic, in 1888. Also "A\en and 
Things" oy "Penn" (William Perine) in Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Feb. ; 
and i;, 1907 



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to 1677; of David Williamson, who settled in Pennsylvania 
in 1682; of Robert Pennell, wlio settled in Middletown, in 
1686; of Thomas Mercer, an early settler of the same town- 
ship; of John Baker, who died in Edgmont, in 1685, and 
who gave that township the name it still retains. Mr. Ash- 
mead is a great, great grandson of Benjamin Miflln, broth- 
er of Gen. Thomas Mifflin, of the Revolution, and first Gov- 
ernor of the Commonwealth under the Constitution of 
1790; a great grandson of William McKinley — the family 
which furnished the twenty-fifth President of the United 
States — and in the seventh generation a descendant of An- 
thony Wayne who, at the battle of the Boyne, commanded 
a company of dragoons in the service of William III., "and 
fought with signal bravery throughout the hottest of the 
contest." Mr. Ashmead's great, great grandmother and 
"Mad Anthony" Wayne, were first cousins, brothers' chil- 
dren. 

John Wayne Ashmead, son of William and Margaret 
(McKinley) Ashmead, was born in Philadelphia May 16, 
1806; read law in the office of Archibald Randall, after- 
ward United States District Judge, and was admitted to the 
Bar of Philadelphia, May 5, 1827. He was a member of 
the Legislature in 1832, and was Deputy Attorney General 
for Philadelphia — an ofifice, since 1850, known as District 
Attorney — during the period of service of Hon. George M. 
Dallas and Hon. Ellis Lewis. In 1849, ^^ '^'^'^^ appointed 
United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of 
Pennsylvania, a position he held during the administration 
of Presidents Taylor and Fillmore, holding over for one 
year under President Pierce. It was while in discharge of 
that office he conducted on behalf of the United States, in 
185 1, the prosecution of Castner Hanway, indicted for treas- 
on in resisting the inforcement of the Fugitive Slave Law, 
which Col. Alexander K. McClure, in his "Recollections," 
asserts was the opening struggle of the Civil War. In 1856, 
John W. Ashmead removed to New York City, where among 
many noted cases he defended James Stephens in the leading 
trial for arsenical poisoning in the United States ; defend- 
ed Capt. Richard W. Meade, tried by a naval court martial 
for the loss of the Lmited States frigate "San Jacieto" on 
the Bahama Banks, January i, 1865, and was counsel for 



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Tames Murpliy, in liis claim against tlie Republic of Cliili 
for the seizure of the brig "'rowusend Jones" and licr car- 
go, at Valpariso, in April, 1859. 

John W. Ashmcad died at Clinton Place, New Jersey, 
April 7, 186S. lie married November 29, 1829, Henrietta 
Craliam Mower, daughter of Richard and Henrietta (Gra- 
ham) l-dower. She was born at Chester Mills, now Up- 
land. Pa., June 20, 1809, and died at Chester, Pa., Febru- 
ary 20, 1879. 

Henry Graham Ashmead was born at Philadelphia, 
June 30. 183S. in the city residence of the family on Fifth 
Street, near Spruce, the house immediately adjoining to 
the soutli the graveyard of "The Fighting Quakers," which 
Dr. Mitchell refers to in his "Hugh Wynn." His grand- 
mother Flower named him Henry Graham, for her father, 
Henry Hale Graham ( i ) , the first President Judge of the 
Courts of Delaware County. The boy received his pri- 
mary education in the school conducted by Harriet B. Mc- 
Keever, the authoress, and subsequently was a student at 
the schools of David Fuller, the Chester Academy, at West 
Chester, Pa., and Saunder's Institute, in West Philadel- 
phia, on the site of which was founded the Presbyterian 
Hospital. 

In 1855, H. G. Ashmead entered the office of his fath- 
er, read law and was admitted to the Bar of New York, 
November 30. 1859. the family having, in the meanwhile, 
removed to that city. Early in i860, he entered into part- 
nership with Leon Abbett, afterward three times Governor 
of New Jersey, an association which continued less than 
a year, Mr. Ashmead's health becoming impaired and on 
the advice of physicians he abandoned the active practice of 
the law. 

March. 1863. he visited New Orleans, to which place 
his father was called to argue a case before the Provisional 
Court, instituted by President Lincoln after the capture of 
the city. While there a friend of Mr. Ashmead. who was 
representing as war corresix)ndent one of the leading New 
York dailies, became ill with typhoid fever and for a period 



(i) For line of Ciraham in tliis countr>' and Great Britain see Pedigree XII 
Browning's "Americans of Royal Descent." 



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covering several months, Mr. Ashmead acted in his stead, 
which gave him opportunity to see much of the active field 
conduct of the war in the Department of the Gulf. In the 
spring of 1869, the year following the death of his father, 
Mr. Ashmead located in Chester, Pa. 

In June, 1872, when F. Stanhope Hill established the 
Chester Evening A^czvs, Mr. Ashmead became its first re- 
porter and local editor, and in 1874, held a like place on the 
Delaware County Rcpitblican, of which the late Y. S. Wal- 
ter was editor and proprietor. In the exciting election of 
that year, in addition to his other engagements, Mr. Ash- 
mead was editor of a political paper, The Campaign, issued 
in advocacy of the election of Thomas J. Clajton as Presi- 
dent Judge of Delaware County — then created a separate 
Judicial District — a canvass which, for heat and bitterness, 
has never been equalled in the history of the county. From 
that time until the present, Mr. Ashmead has been con- 
stantly engaged in literary work. 

In 1876, he wrote the sketch of "Delaware County," 
which was published in Dr. William H. Eagles' "History 
of Pennsylvania," and contributed to periodicals and jour- 
nals many articles dealing with incidents of State and Na- 
tional history. He was appointed, in 1882. corresponding 
secretary of the Bi-Centennial Association of Chester, to 
commemorate the first landing of William Penn in his 
Province, and wrote the greater part of the "Historical 
Sketches of Chester-on-Delaware," William Shaler John- 
son furnishing an account of the then industrial condition 
of the city and a description of the ceremonial attending the 
Bi-Centennial e.xercises, as also those connected with the 
dedication of the Penn Landing Memorial. During much 
of the years 1883-4, Mr. Ashmead was engaged in writ- 
ing the "Flistory of Delaware County, Pennsylvania." 
President Cleveland, on August 3. 1885, appointed him 
postmaster at Chester. During his administration, on June 
6, 1886, the special delivery service was instituted for the 
first time in Chester, and on July i, 1887, he organized the 
free mail delivery which became operative at that date. In 
the spring of that year, a committee of citizens were ap- 
pointed to urge on Congress the erection of a Federal 



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Building in Chester, of wliicli organization Mr. Aslimcad 
was an active meniber. serving thereon nntil 1896, when, on 
coinpletiiMi of tlic hiiiliHng. tlie ol)jcct of tlic movement had 
been attained. At the first meeting nf tlic ounmittec. in 
1887, he was retinested to prepare a pamphlet, entitled, 
"Chester and Its Suhurbs." wherein, in a compact form, 
was presented the then importance of the city, industrially 
and commercially, which pamphlet was distributed to all 
the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, 
and tlie data therein presented was made the substance of 
the rejjorts of both houses, recommending a Congressional 
approiiriation to purchase land and erect the present post- 
oftice structure. In 1880, at the request of the Chester 
Board of Trade, he collecte<l the data for "Chester. Penn- 
sylvania; A History of its Industrial Progress and its Ad- 
vantages for Large Manufacturing," I)ut did not supervise 
the final form in which the matter so collected was given 
publication. In 1897, he wrote the text of the ".\rt Work 
of Delaware County." In 1902. he wrote "A Genealogical 
Sketch, tracing the descent of the children of Robert and 
Phebe Ann (Deiany) Wethcrill through the Sharp, Keen, 
Sandelantls and other families, which was handsomely 
printed in a limited edition for private circulation. In the 
same year be wrote the plays, "Mistress Nancy," "The 
Captain's Ward." and "Miss DeCourcy. The following 
year, 1903. he wrote the drama of "The Matchmakers," 
"The Silent Witness," "By Order of the Czarina," "In 
Troublous Times," and "A Hallowe'en Tangle." The same 
year, he wrote the "Souvenir History of Chester," and was 
an associate e<h"tor of "Pennsylvania — Colonial and Fed- 
eral," a costly work in three royal octavo volumes. Plis 
fugative pieces, contributed to the periodical and newspaper 
press, upon historical topics, far e.Kceed. if gathered into 
volumes, that which he has published in book form. Sev- 
eral of his articles in respect to incidents connecterl with the 
historA' of Delaware County have been published in the first 
volume of "The Proceedings of the Delaware County His- 
torical Society." In 1904. in association with Gilbert Cope, 
Mr. Ashmead was the Delaware County editor of "His- 
toric Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Person- 
al Memoirs of Chester and Delaware Counties, Pennsvlva- 



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Ilia." In igo6, he wrote tlie dramas, "His Wife's Secret," 
and "Tiie Governor's Ward." 

Among his unpubHshed works are "The Story of Lap- 
idea Manor." an account of the country seat of Hon. Wil 
Ham C. Sproul, in Netlier Providence, Delaware County; 
"The History of the Bank of Delaware County and its Suc- 
cessor, the Delaware County National Bank," which will not 
be printed until 1914, when the institution will be a cen- 
tury old, and a novel, "Daddy's Little Girl." Mr. Ash- 
mead rarely makes oral addresses, an exception however to 
that rule, was on April 20, 1902, when the Daughters of 
the American Revolution unveiled the tablet on the Wash- 
ington House, Chester: on April 19, 1903, when the same 
organization unveiled the tablet on the City Hall, and on 
June 2y, 1903, when at a meeting of the Society of the War 
of 18 1 2, at Fort Gaines, Marcus Hook, he delivered the 
historical address on that occasion. 

Mr. Ashmead is the Secretary of the Commission for 
the selection of a site and the erection of a State Hospital 
for the Criminal Insane; he is Recording Secretary of the 
Delaware County Historical Society; a member of the 
Pennsylvania Historical Club, and at one time was exceed- 
ingly active in Masonic circles, having attained to the thir- 
ty-second degree in the order. 

Henry Graham /Vshmead has been twice married. His 
first wife, to whom he was married September 2, 1872, was 
Rebecca Frances Warner, daughter of Captain Richard N. 
Warner, of Alexander, Virginia. She died April 18. 1880. 
To that marriage was born, August 27, 1873, a son, John 
Wayne Ashmead, who was a young man of exceeding 
promise, and graduated from the Chester High School in 
the class of 1889. when he was not yet sixteen years of age, 
the youngest person to receive a degree in all the history 
of the institution. The voung man's health became pre- 
carious and Dr. Agnew, the same year, advised that he 
should make a prolonged visit to Colorado in the hope that 
a change of climate might prove beneficial. But nothing 
availed and John W. Ashmead, 2nd, died November 30, 
1 89 1, aged eighteen years and three months. Mr. Ash- 
mead's marriage with Fmma Campbell has been without 
issue. 



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(-'_') AXXIK DODGE CAMPP.F.LL. daiiplitcr of 
fames and Anijelina (Garsed) Campbell, was horn at 
Leipcr\ ille. Ividley Township, Delaware County, Pennsyl- 
vania. Ans^ist 31, 1S30; she was a pupil of the private 
school of which Henry L. Donaldson, at the Leiperville toll 
gate house, was principal; later attending the public schools 
of Cliester. Pcnna.. and comi)lcting her education at "The 
Seminary for Voung Ladies." at Broad and Upland Streets, 
Chester. Penna.. of which the Rev. George Hood was prin- 
cipal. She was married to Francis Shunk Baker, Novem- 
ber 6, 1872. 

January i, 1888, she was appointed General Utility 
Clerk at the Chester Post Office; May i, of the same year, 
appointed Assistant Postmaster and Supervisor of the 
money-order and registry departments, retaining these po- 
sitions under P(jstniasters II. G. .\shmead. Robert 
Chadwick, John L. (Jarrett and Thomas H. Higgins; May 
I. igo2. she voluntarily tendered her resignation to take 
effect May 31, 1902, covering an uninterrupted period of 
service of fourteen years and five months. Mrs. Baker is 
a member of St. Paul's Episcopal church. Chester Pa. 

FRANCIS SHUNK BAKER, .son of Perciphor (born 
November 22, 18 17. died April 11, 1881) and Sarah Neide 
Nelling (born November 21, 1827. died August 13. 1857) 
Baker, was born at Chester, Penna., January 19, 1850. He 
was a grandson of David and Ann Hinkson Baker. His 
grandmother was a daughter of John and Abigail Vernon 
Engle Baker. ( i ) He was educated in the public schools 
of his native town and the Chester Academy, of which 
Charles W. Dean was principal. Subsequently he took a 
special course at the Bryant and Straton Commercial Col- 
lege. Philadelphia, after which he entered the office of the 
plumbing establishment of Gawthrop & Brothers. Chester, 
a position he resigned to accept a clerkship in the Chester 
Post Office under Major Jo.seph R. T. Coates, Postmaster. 
Later the firm of Perciphor Baker & Company, conducting 
a daily freight steamship line between Chester and Phila- 
delphia, einployed him as si>ecial messenger between those 
two points; this position he retained until October 28, 1870, 

(i) Proceedings of the Delaware County Historical Society. Vol. i, page 186. 



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when he was appointed purser of the steamship "Roman," 
of the Windsor Line, plying between Pliiladelphia, Penna., 
and Boston, Mass. 

In 1872, he resigned to become tlie captain of the 
"City of Chester," making daily trips I)etween Chester and 
Philadelphia. He had a pilot's license covering the Dela- 
ware Ri\-er and Bay. In 1874, he was promoted to the 
superintendency of the Chester Freight Line, a position 
he held until 1886. That year he established a line of 
steamboats on the James River, Virginia, with headquar- 
ters at the City of Richmond. In May, 1887, Captain Baker 
returned to Chester, where he died October 14, of the same 
year. He was a member of Chester Lodge, F. & A. M., No. 
236; a companion of Corinthian Chesseur Commandery, 
No. 53, Knights Templar, of Pennsylvania, and was one 
of the organizers of Chester Council, No. 553, Royal Ar- 
canum. In his political sentiments Captain Baker was a 
Democrat and in 1879, as the candidate of that party, he 
was elected to City Council, representing the old North 
Ward. He was re-elected in 1881, but refused to be a 
candidate for re-election to succeed himself for a third term 
in that body. 

To Captain Frank S. and Annie Dodge (Campbell) 
Baker were born six sons : 

(60) An infant son was born December 23, 1874. 

(61) Perciphor Baker, Junior, born December 10, 
1875, died June 5, 1876. 

(62) Walter Campbell Baker, born at Chester, Sep- 
tember 22, 1877. 

(63) James Campbell Baker, born at Chester, Decem- 
ber 10, 1880. 

(64) Joseph Horace Baker, liorn at Chester, Febru- 
ary 4. 1883. 

(65) Frank Nelling Baker, born at Chester, January 
24, 1885. 

(24) JOHN GARSED CAMPBELL, (i) son of 
James and Angelina (Garsed) Campbell, was born March 
5, 1852, at Leiperville, Pa. When fourteen, at his own 
suggestion, he sought and found employment as a ■ loth boy 

(i) See "Who's Who in Pennsylvania," page 109. 



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in tlic Lamokin Mills. These mills later i)Ccamc financially 
cinbarassed ami. as a o>nse(|ucnce. yonnp Canii)l)ell. then 
without employment, returned to school, where he remain- 
ed until March, 1867. when he removed to Frankford, Pa., 
where he learned the machine and manufacturiufj business, 
an occupation he continued until the sprin<^ nf 1875. when he 
accepted a position as salesman of cotton yarns. A year 
later, he entere<l the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's em- 
plovment and was located in their office at the grounds 
ot the Centennial Exposition. When the station there .vas 
discontinued, he entered the large machine shops at 
Bridesburs;- and traveled for that conK>ration, as a construct- 
ing machinist. In the late fall of 1877, he started a hosiery 
mill at Marcus Hook, but after several months he gave up 
tlie business there and found employment in a machine shop 
in I-'rankford. In 1878, he became interested in a weaving 
mill in Frankford, but owing to an abnormal advance in 
the price of yarns and the severe competition of the South, 
he withdrew from the enterprise, but in 1879, was instru- 
mental in establishing a spinning mill in the same neighbor- 
hood for the manufacture of hosiery yarn. This plant was 
conducted very successfully until the assassination of Pres- 
ident Garfield, July 2, 1881, which caused a stagnation in 
the hosiery trade, and to avoid more serious consequences, 
tlie enterprise went into liquidation and was abandoned. 
Mr. Campbell, in January, 1882, entered the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company's ticket office at Broad Street Station, a 
position he retained until the spring of 1883, when he re- 
signed and started a coal yard at Tacony. A few months 
later he acquired an interest in coal yards at Bridesburg 
and Holmesburg. both of which enterprises he conducted 
with much success. 

In January. 1889, John G. Campbell formed a partner- 
ship with his brother, James A. G. Campbell, and his cous- 
in, Edward Gartside, and established a plant at Frankford 
for finishing cotton goods. July, of that year, Mr. Camp- 
bell went to Europe and visited a number of the leading 
finishing works in England ant! the Continent. On his re- 
turn home he erected a large plant at Frankford Junction, 
Philadelphia, and outfitted it with the latest improved ma- 
chinery, much of which was of novel design and adapted 



40 

to a class of work for the first time attempted in the United 
States. In September, 1905, John G. and James A. G. 
Campbell sold their interests in the mill and business, the 
former retiring with a competency. A man of affairs, Mr. 
Campbell soon grew tired of a life of comparative inactiv- 
ity. In the spring of 1906, he formed the Stenton Mills 
Company, located in Philadelphia, a corporation engaged 
in the manufacture of tape, which has been a very success- 
ful enterprise under his management. 

John G. Campbell is a Royal Arch Mason, a member 
of the Sons of St. George, and several clubs and fraternal 
organizations. He is also President of the Magnolia Ceme- 
tery Company, of Tacony, Pa. On December 31, 1891, he 
married Katherine R. Harper, of Camden, New Jersey. 

KATHERINE REBECCA (HARPER) CAMP- 
BELL, a daughter of Robert Worrell Harper (son of Jacob 
and Mary Ann (Bodine) Harper) and Mary Ann Clift 
(daughter of Charles R. and Rebecca (Robers) Claft), was 
born at Camden, New Jersey, December 20, 1867. She was 
educated in the public schools of that city, graduating from 
Cooper School in the class of 1883. For several years she 
was engaged in teaching in the public schools of Camden. 
Mrs. Campbell is a member of Nassau Chapter, Camden, 
N. J., Daughters of the American Revolution, entering 
through the services rendered by her great grandfather. 
Captain Robert Worrell, during the War for Independ- 
ence. She is also a member of the Historical Society of 
Frankford, Pa. 

To the marriage of John Garsed and Katherine (Har- 
per) Campbell were born tlie following children : 

(66) James Alvan Campbell, born October i, 1893, 
died January, 1894; buried in Chester Rural Cemetery. 

(67) William Taylor Campbell, born September 2, 
1896. 

(68) Katherine Harper Campbell, born March 24, 
1903. 

(25) FANNIE AMANDA CAMPBELL, daughter 
of James and Angeline (Garsed) Campbell, was born at 
Leiperville, Delaware County, Pa., July 3, 1854. In De- 
cember of the following year, her parents removed to Ches- 



4« 

ter. wlicrc almost licr entire life has been lived on Broad 
Street, within a stone's throw of the house to which she 
came an infant of seventeen months. She was educate*! in 
tlic public scluHils of the city and when nearly seventeen, 
began teaching in the schools in which siie had been a pupil, 
contiiuiing in that occupation fmm 1872 until the close of 
the term of 1879. For over fifteen years she taught in the 
Sunday School of St. Paul's Ivpiscopal Church, of which 
she is a member. She has taken an active part in the 
parish work of tlie Church ; for a score of years has been 
the Secretary of the Dorcas Society, and has served at reg- 
ular i)eriods as a member of the .\ltar Guild. She was one 
of the organizers of the New Century Club, serving on its 
Board of Directors, and is a member of the Delaware 
County Historical Society. 

(26) JAMES ALFRED GARSED CAMPBELL,(i) 
son of James and Angelina (Garsed) Campl)c!l. was born 
in Chester, Penua., February 19, 1858, at tlie family resi- 
dence, removed to give place to the present Third Presby- 
terian Churcii edifice. He was educated in the jiublic schools 
of that city, save for a special course of six weeks' duration 
at the Chester Academy. .At sixteen, he began his business 
career as a clerk in the office of Hcadley & Mahon, and in 
1876 was exjiress messenger for the firm between Chester 
and Philadelphia. In the winter of that year, he secured a 
clerkship in the real estate office of John Cochran, in Phila- 
delphia, but several months later he entered the employment 
of Dutton & -Anderson, then conducting a large coal and 
lumber business in Chester, as bookkeeper, a position he re- 
signed to accept one of a similar character in the office of 
John H. Strc^ud & Company's planing mill. On November 
10, 1879, he became a clerk in the office of Elliot, Sons & 
Company, banking and brokerage house. No. 109 South 
Third Street, Philadelphia. At that time Mr. Campbell was 
slender in build, spare of flesh and exceedingly youthful in 
appearance. When the young man was presente<l to the sen- 
ior m.MiilxT of the firm, Mr. Elliott shook his lie-i.l 



Mill* 



! : sketches of Colonel James A. G. Campbell, see Hist :.^. I : .in.', :. - 
graphical CyclopaeJia of Delaware County, page 250: "Who's Who in Pennsyl- 
vania," page loi; Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Chester and Delaware 
Countj-, Pennsylvania, vol. II, page 93. 



42 

"I don't know. The place is a responsible one and you are so 
young." "Time will cure that. Mr. Elliott. Try me for 
a week. Then if I fail to size up to the work, you can find 
some one to replace me." "That's only fair," was the re- 
ply of the banker, and Campbell remained in the office with 
constantly increasing responsibilities until the latter part 
of 1883, when, on the death of the senior partner, he be- 
came bookkeeper for the stock brokerage firm of L. M. 
Taylor & Company, southwest corner Third and Chestnut 
Streets, Philadelphia. When the Chester Bank and Saving 
Fund and The Delaware County Trust Company were or- 
ganized in the summer of 1885, the positions of receiving 
teller of the bank and secretary of the Trust Company were 
tendered to and accepted by Mr. Campbell. On February 
2^, 1886, when twenty-eight years of age, he was chosen 
Cashier of the Bank, and on May 17, 1889, when the two 
organizations were consolidated, he was elected Treasurer; 
May 20, 1892, Vice President, and June 8, 1899, was 
elected President of The Delaware County Trust, Safe De- 
posit and Title Insurance Company, a position in which he 
is at present serving. The enormous increase in the vol- 
ume of banking business had rendered the old system of 
exchange by messenger, tedious, unsatisfactory and expen- 
sive. As an experiment at the outset, on May 17, 1893, 
Mr. Campbell organized and put into operation The Ches- 
ter Clearing House, of which he was appointed the first 
manager. Immediately the plan proved itself of the utmost 
advantage in speedily adjusting the exchanges between 
the financial institutions of the city. From 1890 to 1892, 
he was Secretary and Treasurer of the Standard Spinning 
Company, of Chester, but in the last named year sold his 
holdings in the corporation and resigned the ofifice he held 
in its Board of Directors. 

In early manhood, James A. G. Campbell was exceed- 
ingly active in the military afifairs of Pennsylvania. He 
was one of the original members of Company B, Eleventh 
(now Sixth) Regiment, National Guards of Pennsylvania, 
in which he enlisted as a private March 30, 1881. On 
June 6, of the same year, he was appointed Second Ser- 
geant and July 29, following. First Sergeant. January 8, 
1883, he was elected First Lieutenant of the Company, a 



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position lie resigned March 30, 1886. Colonel Jolm \V. 
Sdiali. on May 11, 1SS7. appointed Mr. Campbell First 
Lieutenant and Inspector of Ritle Practice for the Sixth 
Regiment. Two months later, July 20, I'.rigadier Cicneral 
Cicnrjje R. Snowden appointed him aid-de-camp with rank 
of Captain on the statT of the I-'irst Britjadc. Captain 
Camphcll acted as Assistant Ailjutanl (icncral of the Bri- 
gade from June 4 to November 11. 1890. When (leneral 
Snowden was promoted Major (^icneral, he appointed Caji- 
tain Campbell aid-de-camp on tiie Division Staff, with rank 
of Major, and later appointed him Division Inspector with 
rank of Lieutenant Colonel. While active in the N. G. P., 
Colonel Campbell participates! in the inaugural parades of 
President Cleveland. 1885: of Harrison in 1889, and in 
that of Cleveland, in 1893. He also officially took part in 
the Constitutional Centennial parade in 1888: that of the 
Presidential Centennial in New York, in 1889. and the Col- 
umbian dedicatory parade in Chicago, in 1892. He was 
on duty with the division staff during the Homestead riots 
in the summer of 1892. When President McKinley called 
for volunteers, in 1898. at the outbreak of the Spanish- 
.American War. Pennsylvania's desire was that its National 
Guard should be accepted as a division, in which event, 
Colonel Campbell would have retained his staff appoint- 
ment and rank, but when it became evident that that would 
not be done. Colonel Campbell sought opportunity to take 
part with the Pennsylvania troop in active service. He 
was appointed May 12. 1898. Adjutant of the Second 
Battalion of the Second Regiment. Pennsylvania Volun- 
teer Infantry, and the following day was mustered into 
the military service of the National Government. Within 
a few days he was offered a captaincy in another regiment, 
but he declined to leave the Second, which had found a 
place for him. when he hail been fearful that all opportun- 
ity was denied him to serve in the field. This act of Colonel 
Campbell in resigning high official rank, when unable to 
enter the service in his staff position, to accept a second 
lieutenancy in a regiment under orders for Camp Alger, 
Virginia (the point designated for mobilization of the Sec- 
ond Army Corps), was made a special subject of commen- 
datory and complimentary notice by General Snowden, in 



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his report for the year 1898. At tliat time, the air was 
filled with rumors of Spanish sympathizers' plots to des- 
troy all powder mills in the United States, and the War De- 
partment, as a protective measure, ordered that all such es- 
tahlishments should have ample military force to guard 
them from being- made the subject of disloyal attacks. With 
that purpose the Second Battalion of the Second Regiment 
was ordered from Mount Gretna, Pa., to Pompton Lake, 
New Jersey, and later to Pennsgrove, New Jersey, where 
large mills were running night and day in manufacturing 
powder for the Federal authorities. The sudden collapse 
of the war rendered the forwarding of additional troops 
to Cuba or Porto Rico unnecessary. Lieutenant Campbell 
under general orders, was mustered out of the United 
States Military Service, October 25, 1898, at Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 

While never an active political partisan. Colonel 
Campbell has given steady adherence to the principles of the 
Republican party. During the Cleveland and Harrison 
campaign of 1888, he was in command of four companies 
of young men organized as a marching club. During the 
municipal campaign in 1893, he was a member of the Com- 
mittee of Fifty, which labored to secure the election of 
John B. Hinkson, the Democratic candidate, as Mayor. In 
1896, Mayor Black appointed Colonel Campbell a member 
of the Board of Park Commissioners, then a new branch 
of the city government, and he was elected its first Secre- 
tary, a position he still retains. In 1905. he was appointed 
a member of the committee of the Republican County or- 
ganization to fill vacancies occurring between the meeting of 
the County nominating convention and the succeeding elec- 
tion. He was elected a member of the Vestry of Saint 
Paul's Episcopal Church, of Chester, April 18, 1892, and 
served as one of the Building Committee which had 
charge of the erection of the new sanctuary at East Broad 
and Madison streets. He is also one of the Managers of 
the Chester Hospital. Colonel Campbell is a member of 
Henry W. Lawton Camp, Spanish-American War Veter- 
ans; of the Penn Club, Chester, Pa., and the Delaware 
County Historical Society. 



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liLIZAl'.i: 111 mi'.I.I'^' MOWRV. (lanplitcr (if Rev. 
Pliilip H. MowTv (Ixirii at Aiiejjhcny. I'n., Marcii 6, 1837). 
and Katliariiio ( Riclianlsoii) Mowry ( l)orii at Kiskimiiiitas. 
Pa.. April 6. 1S40, died at Chester, I'a.. January 20, 1881), 
was born in riiiladelpliia. Ta.. ncccml)er 2. iSru. She was 
ediicatet! in Chester. Pa. Ntiveiiiiier jCk 1880, slie was mar- 
ried to James A. G. Camplicll, at tlie First Presbyterian 
Chiiroli. Chester, her fatlicr perfnrmin.cf the nuptial cere- 
monies. In the paternal line, Mrs. Campbell is desceiuled 
from Cliristian ^fowry. Philip Mowry, Robert Bruce Mow- 
ry, an eminent physician, and in the maternal line, she 
traces descent from Frederick Ilubley. William Richardson 
and Henrietta Hubley. his wife. She is a member of the 
New Century Club, of Chester, having served on its Board 
of Directors and is a member of the Delaware County Chap- 
ter. Dautjhtcrs of the American Revolution, which she en- 
tered through the military services of her great, great 
grandfathers Christian Mowry (i) and Frederick Hub- 
ley. (2) She is also a member of the First Presbyterian 
Church, of Chester. 

To this marriage has been born the following chil- 
dren : 

(69) John Richardson Campbell, born at Chester, 
Pa., March 26, 1891, died October 26, 1895; interred at 
Chester Rural Cemetery. 

(70) Margaret Mowry Campbell, born at Chester, 
Pa., March 9, 1895. 

(71) James Alfred Garsed Campbell, Jr., born at 
Chester, Pa., March 10, 1900. 

(27) WILLIAM HENRY GREEN (3), eldest child 

(i) Christian Mowr>' w.is a private in the Eighth Pennsylvania, Continental 
Line, Pennsylvania, in the devolution, vol. I. paije 'yr. Pennsylvania Archives 
second series, vol. .\. page 602. He died at Pittsburgh. Pa., in 1788, aged ^i 
years. 

( J) Frederick Hublej- was second Lieutenant in Capt. James Ross' Company 
o( First Pennsylvania, Continental Line: Ant^ust 18th, 1775. The company which 
had hcen recruited at Lancaster reached camp at Camnridge. .\\ass., where 
Wjishinijton had invested the British forces in Boston. In 1777, promoted to First 
Lieutenant and made Qluartermaster. Pennsylvania in the Revolution, vol. I, 
pages 14. 37, 3i2. 3.!5, 333. Pennsylvania Arcliieves. Second Senes. vol. .\, pages 
'4, 37, 312, 325, 333. Lieutenant Hubley died in Harrisburg, Pa., December 23rd, 
1833. 

(3) For sketch of Wm. H. Green, Sr, see Ashmead's History of Delaware 
County, page 437. Biographical Historical Cyclopedia of Delaware County, page 
348. biographical and Personal .>\emoirs of Chester, and Delaware County. 
Pa. Vol. II. page 51. 



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of Moses and Jane (Campbell) Green, was born at Stock- 
port. Cheshire, England. August 3, 183 1. Studious and 
persistent, he received in the schools of his native town the 
foundations of a good English education, and. as the trend 
of his mind was towards practical mechanics, at sixteen he 
located in Manchester, where he entered one of the leading 
engine building and mechanical establishments of that city. 
He looked forward to something beyond merely passing 
his life as the employe of others, and with that end in view 
he gave his days to laborious work in the shop and his 
evenings to mastering the theoretical side of the business 
in which he was engaged. His parents, accompanied by 
their younger children, had come to the United States in 
1850, and thither William H. Greai followed thein, when 
he attained his majority and was master of his trade. He 
located in Philadelphia where his skill earned for him 
steady employment. While yet a young man, hardly 
twenty-three, he was tendered the responsible position of 
manager of the engine department of the Tredigar Iron 
Works at Richmond, Va., at that time one of the largest 
industrial plants in the Union. While in that city he met, 
wooed and married Elizabeth Chalmers Mackenzie. Shortly 
after the wedding he was offered the supcrintendency of 
construction and repairs of machinery at the Charlestown 
Navy Yard, in Boston Harbor, which he accepted and re- 
moved thither in the fall of 1857. The Civil War brought 
with it enormous activity in National and private shipyards. 
Early in 1861, the Navy Department commissioned Wil- 
liam H. Green, Chief Engineer of the Boston Navy Yard, a 
position he filled with ability and to the entire satisfaction 
of the National authorities. 

In 1863, Mr. Green was offered charge of the Globe 
Iron Works, at Boston, at a salary much larger than that 
he received at the Navy Yard,. He resignerl to accept the 
company's proposition. At that time the works were build- 
ing machinery for United States armed vessels, and while 
the Government got the l)enefit of his labors, the new place 
afforded Mr. Green the opportunity personally to demon- 
strate his practical ability as a marine engine constructor. 

In 1864, Mr. Green visited his parents, then residing 
in Chester, Pa. The war, in his opinion, was coming to an 



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end, and while in tliat city he decided tliat Chester pre- 
sented an opportunity for the legation of a l)rass and iron 
works. With this pnr|x)se in view he ])Mrcliased land on tlie 
Delaware Ri\er front just hcyond the l><irnu).^h line and 
erected a building forty by one hundred feet, the first indus- 
trial establishment in a section which six years later was 
laid out and incor])ornted as South Chester P>orouph (since 
consolidated with the City of Chester). When the Bor- 
ougfli was incorporated, in 1872, Mr. Green was elected its 
first Chief Burg^css and served several terms thereafter as 
a meiuber of Horoug'h Council. He advocated the most 
liberal expenditures for the free public education of the 
children of the locality, and to that end served several terms 
as a member of the School Board and was the presiding 
officer of that body during one term. 

In the early days of the Vulcan Works, the output of 
the plant, in the main, consisted of brass castings, notably 
valves and cocks. In 1S.S3. a number of valves, each weigh- 
ing in the neighborhood of six tons, were manufactured by 
Mr. Green for use in tlie Water Department of the City 'r'f 
Philarlelphia. They were among the largest castings for 
such a purpose ever made in the United States. 

The Vulcan W'orks was incorporated by the State of 
Pennsylvania in November, 1892. W^illiam H. Green. Sr., 
was elected the first presiflent of the company, holding tiiat 
position until his death, at Chester, Pa., May i, 1893. m 
the sixty-second year of his age. 

Throughout his life, Mr. Green displayed persistent 
energy, unremitting labor and untiring ambition to succeed 
in any project to which he directed his mental abilities and 
business activity. Death came to him while still in the 
possession of his intellectual powers and administrative 
vigor, leaving the reputation of a good citizen, who, while 
mindful of his own personal interest, had at the same time 
constantly in view the best interest of the community in 
which for thirty years he bad held a conspicuous place. 
William H. Green was a charter member of St. Lukes Pro- 
testant Episcopal Church, of Chester, and for many years 
held the office of Warden, contributing largely of his means 
to the support and betterment of the parish organization. 



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He was a member of Chester Lodge, No. 236. F. & 
A. M., St. John's Commandery, No. 4, Knights 
Templar, and had recei\e(l tlie tliirty-second degree, Scot- 
tish Rites. He was a memlier of tlie Friendly Sons of St. 
George, and American Society of Alechanical Engineers. 
His remains are interred in West Laurel Hill Cemetery, 
Philadelphia. 

ELIZABETH CHALMERS MACKENZIE, (i) 
daughter of John and Margaret (Taylor) Mackenzie, was 
born in Edinborough. Scotland, June 24, 1836. 

Elizabeth Chalmers Mackenzie was reared b}- her 
Grandmother Taylor in the A'illage of New Haven, !^cot- 
land. In 1853, she came to the United States and resided 
at Richmond, Va., where William Henry Green and she 
met and where they were married, September 15, 1857. 

After the family's removal to Chester, Pa., Mrs. Green 
became exceedingly active in the upbuilding of the St. 
Luke's Episcopal Church. She took a leading part in the 
charitable work in what was then South Chester, and was 
for years connected with the Ladies' LTnion Benevolfnt So- 
ciety. 

To the marriage of William Henry and Elizabeth 
Chalmers (Mackenzie) Green were born: 

(72) William Henry Green, Jr., born at Charlestown, 
Mass., June 29, 1859. 

(73) Margaret Jane Green, born at Charlestown, 
Mass., December 3, i860. 

(74) Mary Green, born at Chester, Pa., September 
15, 1862, died October 11, 1862. 

(75) Laura Christina, born at Chester, Pa., April 11, 
1865, died February 14, 1869. 

(76) Alfred Tainyson Green, born at Chester, Pa., 
March 26, 1867. 

{TJ^ Lillie Christina Green, born at Chester, Pa., 
February 3, 1871. 

(i) The Mackenzie Clan— Hishlanders— have as tlieir peculiar badge of 
distinction, anciently worn by each clan, Deera Grass, as the Campbell Clan have 
Myrtle- 



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(78) Gc<ir<,'c Thomas Rciil List. Ixirii at Chester, Pa., 
Febriiaiv u. iS^.]. died jaiiary U). 1S76. 

(29) JOHN JACOB C.REEN, son of Moses and 
Jane (Campbell) Green. \vas born at Stockport, Cheshire, 
Ennland, September 4. 1835. lie was educated in the schools 
of his native place and was a lad of fourteen when his 
parents came to the United States. Here he received a 
thorough training in mechanical engineering and when 
scarcely beyond his majority was master mechanic at 
the railway shops in Savannah. Ga. The financial panic of 
1857, caused a shut-down of these works; he came to Clies- 
ter. Pa., and \n connection with his father, einbarked in the 
grocery business. 

Early in 1858, John Larkin, Jr., erected the Liberty 
Cotton JNIills at the southwest corner of Tenth (then known 
as Liberty) and Madison Streets, which Green operated 
until 1864, when Harry McIIvain and John Hinkson built 
the Continental Mills for John J. Green, giving the name 
Green to the street on which the factory faced. 

The depression in cotton goods shortly after the Civil 
\\';ir was disastrous to many manufacturing establishments 
and John J. Green's was among the sufferers from that 
condition. Later, in connection with Charles Powell, he 
conducted a cotton mill on St. Charles Street, Chester, but 
the enterprise met with indifferent success and was finally 
abandoned. 

John Jacob Green married December 9, i86r. at Ches- 
ter, Pa., Elma Town.send Roberts, (i) He was a member 
of Chester Lodge, No. 236. F. & A. 'M. He died at Ches- 
ter. December 2, 1877, aged forty-two years. 

EL^LA TOWNSEND ROBERTS, wife of John J. 
Green, was a daughter of Howard and Henrietta (De Ren) 
Roberts, of Chester. Pa. In the paternal line, she was a direct 
descendant of John and .Ann Sharpless. who settled at what 
is now Waterville, Nether Providence, Delaware County, 
Pa., in 1682. She w.t; bom at Chester. October 6. ( j) 



(i) Cope'--. >M.u|.n-,^ . ,L-iRM,ni;\. );ivfs her nirin :^^ .N.ivemher is.jj; her 
marrLige to John J. Green as Noveiiil)er 9. i86a; and the husband's middle name 
is there given as Campbrii. 



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184^, and when scarcely more than nineteen, became the 
wife of John J. Green. To this marriage were born: 

(79) Sarah Green, born at Chester, Pa., May 19, 
1864, and died same day. 

(80) Edna Jane Green, born July 21, 1856. 

(81) Mary Campbell Green, born August 6, 1867. 

(82) Elma Townsend Green, born at Chester, Pa., 
May 4, 1869, died October 12, 1874. 

(83) John Jacob Green, Jr., born at Chester, Pa., 
June 22, 1 87 1, died September 18, 1874. 

(84) Eva St. Clair Green, born at Chester, Pa., June 
30, 1875. 

(30) J.\MES CAMPBELL GREEN, son of Moses 
and Jane (Campbell) Green, was born at Stockport, Ches- 
hire, England, November 9, 1837. When a lad of thirteen 
he accompanied his mother to the United States. Much of 
his education was acquired in the public schools of Phila- 
delphia. He received thorough training as a mechanical 
engineer at the Bush Hill Iron Works, in Philadelphia, and 
was employed as an assistant to his brother, William H. 
Green, at the Tredigar Iron Works, at Richmond, Va., and 
subsequently accompanied his brother in a like capacity 
when the latter was chief constructing engineer at the 
Charlestown (Boston) Navy Yard. In 1862, James C. 
Green accepted the management of one of the largest 
sugar plantations in Cuba, located at Los Vegas, Matan- 
zas Province. Even at that early day there was a spirit of 
unrest among the inhabitants. Hence on several occasions, 
James C. Green visited the United States until the spirit 
of the rebellion had spent its force. The insurgents and 
Spanish troops indifferently and wantonly destroyed prop- 
erty, and after order was restored, Mr. Green spent no lit- 
tle time in repairing the damages inflicted on the estate 
and reorganizing the laboring class in order to place the 
plantation again on a productive basis. About 1890. the 
evidences of a general disquiet among native Cubans 
became so manifest that Mr. Green began to question the 
future of the island. In 1891, he made an extended tour 
of Europe, and in 1896. Mr. Green made a second extended 
European tour. On iiis return to Philadelphia, he decided 



5' 

U) abaiKlon nil liis business association with Ciilta. The 
torch hail (lestn)ve<l much oi his holdings hut he fortu- 
nately saved from the \vreckac;c a competency, the interest 
from which maintainc<i him in ease until he died, which 
occurred in Philadelphia. Xoveinher J5, i<;oi. wiicn he had 
just entered liis sixty-tilth year. 

James C. Green spoke Spanish fhiently. lie was a 
pleasing;- conversationalist. Many interestintj and odd ad- 
ventures had happened to him in his lennfthy sojourn in 
Cuba and he possessed a dramatic manner in relating- such 
incidents that kept his hearers in roars of lanpfliter. 

James C. Cireen was a member of King; Solomon's 
I-odge, A. F. & .A. M.. of Manchester; of the Sons of St. 
George, of Philadelphia, and other secret organizations. He 
never married. 

(31) MARY JANE GREEN (i) and JANE 
GREEN, twin daughters of ^h-lses and Jane (Campbell) 
Green, were born at Stockjxirt, Cheshire, England. Febru- 
ary I, 1830. Jane Green died August 31, 1S49, aged ten 
years. She is buried in St. Peter's Gate, Stockport, where 
the stone marking her grave still remains in excellent pres- 
ervation. Mary J. Green was educated in schools in Phila- 
delphia and Chester. Later she studied medicine, graduat- 
ing from the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, 
corner of North College Avenue and Tw^enty-first Street, 
Pliiladelphia. in the class of 1878. One month subsequent 
to her graduation she passed a successful examination and 
was appointed physician in charge of the Maternity Charity 
Hospital, located at 610 South Tenth Street, Philadelphia, 
for a period of one year. At the expiration of her term of 
service in that institution, she began, in Philadelphia, a gen- 
eral practice, with marked success. Having acquired a com- 
petency she retired from active duties of professional life in 
1898. although as a personal favor, she still retains 
charge of a few families who would not consent to be 
waited upon by other physicians. Dr. Mary T- Green, in 
1891. spent a three months' vacation in Europe, devoting 
several weeks to the neighborhood which was the scene 
of her earlv childhood life. 



(i I Sketch of Dr. Mary J. Green, "Who's Who in Pennnsylvaia," page 278. 



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(33) MOSES HENRY GREEN, the youngest child 
of Moses and Jane (Campbell) Green, was born at Stock- 
port, Cheshire, England, January 19, 1846. He was not 
five years old when his mother (the father had preceded them 
the year before) and her children came to the United States 
He was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia and 
in Chester, Pa., he being scarcely more than ten years old 
when his parents removed to the latter city. He acquired a 
thorough knowledge of the brass and iron foundry and fin- 
ishing business at the Vulcan Works, at Chester, of 
\vhich his brother, \Villiam H. Green, was proprietor, and 
was given the management of the Chester store and sales- 
rooms of the works. In 1872, he had entire charge of the 
Philadelphia ofifice and salesrooms of the Vulcan Works 
and remained in direction of its extensive business in that 
city until 1879. Mercantile life was distasteful to him and 
in that year he began the study of medicine, graduating 
from the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, with 
honors in the class of 1882. The same year he was honored 
by the appointment of Assistant Gynecologist on the out- 
patient staff of the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, a 
position he resigned in 1883 to accept a place as First 
Assistant Physician of the Out-Patient Medical Depart- 
ment. In the meanwhile, his private practice was growing 
rapidly in West Philadelphia, where he had located imme- 
diately after graduation. In 1886, he became Eirst Assist- 
ant Demonstrator of Clinical Medicine in the Jefferson 
Medical College, and during three years was District Physi- 
cian of the Eleventh District of the Philadelphia Hospital. 
Dr. Green's practice had grown so extended and remunera- 
tive that he has been compelled to rehnquish all outside 
professional duties. 

As a child, Dr. Green was conspicuous for his ability 
as a mimic and singer. .\s a young man he was disting- 
uished for his elocutionary and histrionic talents. In 1866, 
he was one of the organizers of the Pacific Dramatic Asso- 
ciation, of Chester. He was leading man of the organiza- 
tion, appearing in the character of "Bob Brierly" in its pro- 
duction of "The Ticket-of-Leave Man." "George Harris" 
and "Simon Lagree" in "Uncle Tom's Cabin;" "Paul Pry" 



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in the play of tlint name; Fimotliy Toodles" in "Tood- 

ies;" "Tlie Gi)ltlen Farmer," "Capt. Mnrphy Magiiire," and 
otlicr characters in dramas presented liy tlie association in 
National 1 lall, at that time the only ])nl)lic building in Ches- 
ter in wiiich dramatic entertainments could be staged. Later, 
he, with others, organized the Shakespeare Dramatic As- 
sociation, secured Tuscarora Hall, on Fifth, west of Mar- 
ket Street, and outfitted it with scenery. There, for the only 
time in Chester, was produced the tragedy of "Flamlet ;" 
James B. Roberts, one of the leading American actors of 
his day, appeared as "Hamlet." At Mr. Roberts' solicita- 
tion, M. Harry Green was the "Ghost," a difficult part to 
sustain effectively. The play was so well received that, in 
compliance with the public demand, it was reproducetl 
nightly for a week to o\erllowing houses. In 1S72, on his 
removal to Philadelphia, Mr. Green resigned membership 
in the association. 

Dr. Green is well known as an elocutionist and after- 
dinner orator. His repertoire of witty sayings and recita- 
tions is large and choice, hence he is in constant demand at 
public occasions and banquets, when he contributes to the 
pleasure of those assembled and keeps the table in a roar 
by his humor. He is a charter member of Larkin Lodge, 
Knights of Pj'thias, Chester, Pa. ; Past Master of Chester 
Lodge, Xo. 266, Free and Accepted Masons; Past High 
Priest of Columbia Chapter, No. 91, Royal Arch Masons, 
and chairman of both the Board of Surgeons and of the 
Entertainment Committee of St. John's Commandery, No. 
4, Knights Templar; chairman of the Entertainment Com- 
mittee of the Society of the Sons of St. George, Philadel- 
phia; Trustee of x-Xnglo-Saxon Lodge, No. 13, Order Sons 
of St. George; of the Tennyson Lodge, the Witan, of Alfred 
the Great Lodge, of the Friendly L'nion of Peabody Lodge, 
a member of the West Philadelphia Medical Association 
and of the Medical Book Club. In 1903, Dr. Green made 
an extended tour of Ireland. Scotland, England, Wales, 
Holland, Belgium. Germany, Switzerland and France, thus 
adding to his extensive exi)erience, and on his return, by 
invitation of various bodies to which he belongs, delivered 
several lectures on his travels, which were well attended and 



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much enjoyed. He was married April 25, 1888, in Phila- 

delpliia, to Amelia Roberts Branin. 

AMELIA ROBERTS BRANIX, wife of Dr. M. 
Harry Green, daugliter of Isaac Porter Branin (died No- 
vember 15, 1904) and Frances Rosana Branin (born at 
Frankford, Pliiiadelpliia, Pa., October 7, 1833, and died in 
Philadelphia, May i, 1889), was born in Frankford, Phila- 
delphia, January 25, 1852, and was educated in the public 
schools of that city. In the paternal line, her grandfather 
was Nathaniel Branin (born 1796, died 1866), who owned 
a cultivated and extensive farm near Philadelphia. His 
parents were William and Abigail Rodgers. the former the 
son of Michael Branin, a member of Friends' Society, who 
settled in Philadelphia, having come originally from Bel- 
fast, Ireland, in the early half of the eighteenth century. 
Elizabeth Porter, wife of Nathaniel Branin, and Mrs. 
Green's grandmother, was a daughter of Thomas and Maiy 
Porter, of New Jersey. In the matern.al line she is a grand- 
daughter of Samuel J. and Ann (Joham) Edgar. To the 
union of Dr. Moses Henry and Amelia Roberts (Branin) 
Green has been bom one child : 

(85) Mary Amelia Green, born at Philadelphia, Nov- 
ember 5, 1894. 

(34) JAMES CAMPBELL SHEDWICK, son of 
John and Margaret (Campbell) Shed wick, was born in 
Stockport, Cheshire, England, September 24, 1839. He 
was a child of but five years when, in 1844, his mother and 
her two sons, of whom James was the eldest, came to the 
LTnited States to join the husband and father who, in the 
preceding year, had located permanently in Philadelphia. 
James C. Shedwick was educated in the public schools of 
that city. When sixteen, in 1855, deciding to acquire a 
thorough practical knowledge of the carpenter's trade, he 
entered the constructing and erecting shops of the Penn 
sylvania Railroad Company at Thirty-second and ]\Iarket 
Streets. To an energetic, observing young man desirous 
of equipping himself to command success in the path of life, 
no better school of instruction could have been selected, for 
from these shops men were sent to erect new buildings for 
use in the company's service, or in repairing those which 



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needed overhauling, indudinjj in tliat wide raiipe almost 
evcrv prolilcni that is jjrcsentcd to tlie practical builder for 
solution. 

Early in 1861, shortly after James C. Shedwick had 
attained his majority, his father associated him in his con- 
tracts and building operation, the tirm t)cing John Shedwick 
& Son. Late in that year, James C Shedwick was severely 
injured by a fall from one of the roofs of a row of 
dwelling houses the firm was then erecting. There was a 
demand for dwelling houses and business had felt the stim- 
ulus of the war, hence the firm was actively engaged in 
building oi)erations undertaken individually or on contracts 
with other parties. The war thus far had been confined to 
the Southern States, but after the disastrous defeat of Pope 
at Second Bull's Run, .August 30, 1862, Lee, flushed with 
success, (.letermined to cross the Potomac and on Septem- 
ber 5, his army crossed the border line, the bands playing 
"Maryland, My Maryland." The preceding day. Governor 
Curtin, by proclamation, had called the people of Pennsyl- 
vania to form military organizations, recommending that 
after three o'clock each day all business places should close 
and the men be drilled in the manual of arms. On the loth, 
the Governor called all able-bodied men to enroll themselves 
immediately for the defense of the State and be ready to 
march at an hour's notice. James C. Shedwick, on Septem- 
ber 6, on returning to dinner, announcetl to his parents that 
he had been enrolled in Captain George J. Corrie's Com- 
pany, which became Company A, Ninth Regiment of Mili- 
tia, Col. John Xewkumet, commanding, and that he had 
been appointed Sergeant. After the proclamation of the 
loth, the Regiment was mobalized, and on the night of the 
1 2th, was forwarded to Harrisburg and later, with other 
Regiments, to Hagerstown, Md., where Major General 
John P. Reynolds, then a Corps Commander of the Army 
of the Potomac, took command of the militia. On the 14th, 
the Army of the Potomac met the advance of the Armv of 
\'irginia at South Mountain, and forced the Confederates 
back through the passes of the range. On the evening of 
the 1 6th and the day of the 17th. the battle of .\ntietam was 
fought. The Pennsylvania militia were pushed forward 



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to the scene of action and 15,000 of tliem formed in line of 
battle as a supporting reserve. With the repulse of Lee and 
the retreat of the Confederates to Virginia, the emergency, 
which had called the Ninth Regiment to the field, passed 
and it was discharged September 26, 1862. 

The following year, James C. Shedwick again saw ac- 
tive military service. On May 2, 1863, the Union Army, 
commanded by General Hooker, was defeated by Lee at 
Chancellorsville, which was followed on June 15, by Lee's 
invasion of Maryland. The following day, his advance cap- 
tured Chambersburg, Pa. Governor Curtin, on the 12th, 
apprehending Lee's purpose, called on the people of the 
State to prepare to defend the Commonwealth. On the 15th, 
Lee crossed the Potomac and the same day President Lin- 
coln called 100,000 of the militia of four States to the 
field, the quota of Pennsylvania being one-half of the en- 
tire number. To these men the Go\-ernor gave the privilege 
to enlist for four months or the emergency. The latter 
term was generally accepted. The Union League enlisted 
a regiment, numerically designated as the Forty-fifth Emer- 
gency Regiment, Col. Frank Wheeler commanding. The 
men were mustered into the United States services, July i, 
James C. Shedwick holding an appointment as Sergeant 
of Company F, Captain George J. Corrie. The troops were 
forwarded to Shippensburg, Gettysburg, the South Moun- 
tain and then Hopestown, Maryland. At South Mountain, 
close to Gettysburg, a Union cavalry regiment charging the 
enemy, bore so close to the line of the Forty-fifth Regi- 
ment that James C. Shedwick was knocked down by the ad- 
vancing body, receiving injuries from which he has never 
wholly recovered. After Lee's defeat at Gettysburg, and 
the retreat of the Confederate Army, the Forty-fifth Regi- 
ment was ordered to Pottsville, Schuylkill County, to quell 
a threatened outbreak in the mining district. After three 
weeks and all apprehension of trouble in that section was 
quieted, the Regiment, on August 29, 1863, was discharg- 
ed by the State authority. Hence, General Sickles, in a 
speech in Congress declared that the Pennsylvania Emer- 
gency Troops were especially worthy of consideration, since 
after thirty years they were still in the service of the United 



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States, tlie Clovcriiinciit having mustered tlicm in, Imt hail 
never mustered tliem out. 

The cessation of the war l)ron,c;ht with it a period of 
stagnation in huilding enterprise in lMiiladeli)liia, as here 
inhefore mentioned in the sketch of jolin Slicdwick. The 
firm tlien decided to transfer tlie i"ield of energy to Ches- 
ter, I'a. Unexpected conchtions, tlie refusal of large prop- 
erty holders to sell availahlc sites for building operations, 
practically thwarted the purpose the firm had in view. I-'arly 
in 1866, James C. Shedwick succeeded John J. Green 
as owner of the Liberty Mills, located at the corner of .Madi- 
son and Tenth Streets, Chester, Pa., the latter highway, 
then known as Liberty Street, gave the mill its name. Its 
products were jeans and drilling. In the early part of 
Decemlier, of the same year, the mills W'Cre totally destroy- 
ed by fire. In the emergency. Mayor Larkin called 
on Philadelphia for assistance. Se\'eral fire companies of 
that city responded, but without avail, the mill and contents 
were entirely consumed. Mr. Shedwick's loss amounted to 
nearly $jo,ooo, more than two-thirds of which were not 
protected by insurance. The mill was not rebuilt, but in 
its place Mr. Shedwick erected a numlicr of dwelling 
houses, thereafter determining to seek fortune in the line 
in which he had been trained. 

Early in January, 1867. the managers of the Pennsyl- 
vania Military .Academy invited proposals for the erection 
of a building for that institution in Chester. Near the end of 
August, the contract was awarded to John Shedwick & 
Son, stipulating that the building should be completed in 
nine months. Competing contractors declared that the time 
was inadequate, but James C. Shedwick, who had entire 
control of the construction, had the building ready for oc- 
cupancy on the first of November, two months before the 
time limit expired. 

In the latter part of 1869, John and James C. Shedwick 
returned to West Philatlelphia, where they entered into 
large building and real estate operations, as mentioned in 
the sketch of John Shedwick. In one purchase of vacant 
land, two days after the firm had acquired title, an offer 
was made by other parties to take the land at an advance of 



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$20.ooo, which was decHned. That deal was the most suc- 
cessful in the history of the firm. 

In 1870, James C. Shedwick made a health trip to the 
West Indies, and in 1880, an extended tour of Europe, 
which he has twice since repeated. In 1876, James C. Shed- 
wick was elected to represent the Twenty-fourth Ward in 
Common Council, Philadelphia. Ser\'ing one term, when 
he declined to be a candidate for re-election. He was elect- 
ed as an Independent, yet he was placed on the import- 
ant committees, and was one of the committee to investi- 
gate the alleged wrong in the management of the County 
Almshouse, which resulted in the conviction of Major 
Phipps for misappropriation of public funds and property. 
He was one of the committee charged with the investiga- 
tion of irregularities in the management of the Water De- 
partment. In 1905, he was one of the committee of the 
Twenty- fourth Ward representing the City Party and was 
active in its affairs. 

In 1887, during the absence of his father in Europe, 
Mr. Shedwick had under way a large building contract. At 
that time there were many strike, mostly of a sympathetic 
character, which delayed the work, interfering with the de- 
li\-erv of materials and other vexatious ways. On his 
father's return, his son told him of the extent to which the 
evils had reached, declaring it would be well "to quit," which 
was finally put into practice. In the fall of that year, he 
began a tour of the world, in which, among other lands, 
lie visited Japan, China, India and the Hawaiian Islands. 

James C. Shedwick is a member of Phoenix Lodge, No. 
130, A. F. & A. M., of Philadelphia; a manber and one 
of the Governors of the Powelton Club, ^Vest Philadelphia; 
President of the Board of Trustees and a member of the 
Northminster Presbyterian Church, and a trustee of the 
West Hope Church, a ward of the Northminster Church. 
On March 25, 1889, James Campbell Shedwick married 
Catharine Bogia. 

CATHARINE BOGIA, daughter of Angellos and Ann 
Bogia (her father was of Italian birth), was born in Phila- 
delphia, I'-ebruary 8, 1S38. She was educated in the public 
schools of her native city. She had traveled much abroad 



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ami in the I'liitcd States, several times makinp a tour of 
Europe. Slie was an exceed iiiply liaiidsiMiie woman, cheer- 
ful and coinpanional)lc. I""or over a year prior to her death, 
she was un.iMe to move alxnit. owinj;; to :i stroke of par;ily- 
sis. hut in her lielplessness was ever considerate of others. 
Slie was a meml)er of tlie West Hope Preshyterian Church. 
Mrs. James C. Sliedwick died in Philadelphia, .Auffiist 32, 
Kjoi. aged sixty-three years, six months and fourteen days. 

(T,y) MARY J.ANF'. SIIKHWICK. dauRhter of John 
and Mari:;aret (Campbell) Sliedwick, was burn in Philadel- 
phia. January i. 1S46. in which city she was educated. For 
a year prior to her death she was in ill health, an affection 
of the heart, but her death, at Chester, on Saturday. March 
7, 1868. was as sudden as it was wholly unex|K"cted, occa- 
sioning wiilespread sorrow in the community where she was 
well known and esteemed. 

The Delaware County Rcp\ibHcau. published at Ches- 
ter, Pa., for March 20, 1868, contains the following: 

"March 7th, 1868, Mary J., daughter of John and 
Margaret Sliedwick, aged 22 years. 

"In Mcmoriam. 

"At a meeting of the officers and teachers of the North 
Ward Mission School of the First Presbyterian Church.(i) 
the following resolutions were unanimously adopted : 

"W'here.vs. It has pleased the God and Father of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, suddenly and unexpected to call to her 
reward. Mary J. Sliedwick, who has been a co-laborer with 
us, in the North Ward Presbyterian Mission Sabbath School, 
since its organization, and who was endeared to us all by 
reason of her purity of character and unaffected piety, and 
wlu)se example as a Sabbath School teacher for promptness 
and punctuality, and devotion to the spirtual welfare of her 
class, commended itself as worthy of cnir imitation; there- 
fore, 

"Resolved, That we express our heartfelt sorrow for 
our loss, and that we recognize in her rem^ ival the voice of 



(i> The School was held in a frame building at the north-east comer of 
jWadison and bleventh Streets, Chester, I'a. 



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God, calling each one of us to a more entire consecration 
of ourselves to His service; 

"Resolved, That we unite in thanksgiving to God for 
her fidelity while with us; 

"Resolved, That we shall unitedly implore Him who 
holds in His hands the residue of her spirit, to sanctify her 
removal by sending upon us a 'time of refreshment from on 
high ;' 

"Resolved, That we most sincerely sympathize with 
our dear brother — the Assistant Superintendent af the 
School(i) — the father of the deceased, and with his wife, 
in their sore bereavement, and that our prayers shall as- 
cend to God for his sustaining and comforting grace, and 
for the santification of this Providence to every member 
of the afflicted family. 

"Resolved, That henceforth the class which tiie de- 
ceased taught shall be known as the 'Mary Jane Shedwick 
class." 

" 'Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord." Rev. 
XIV : 1 3. 

" 'He that believeth in I\Ie, though he were dead yet 
shall he live." John xi :25.' " 

(39) WILLIAM JOHN SHEDWICK, son of John 
and Margaret (Campbell) Shedwick, was born in Pliiladel- 
phia, Pa., October 7, 1851, his birth occurring at the dwel- 
ling, corner of Wallace and Shedwick Streets, West Phila- 
defphia, the first house erected by his father in what was 
then known as Mantua Village. He was educated in the 
public schools of Philadelphia and Chester. 

When the firm of John Shedwick & Son retired, Wil- 
liam J., in association with his brother, Henry Clay Shed- 
wick, continued the business under the title of William J. 
Shedwick & Brother. At the death of Henry C. Shedwick, 
in 1886, the senior partner, in his individual name, continued 
and for almost a score of years has been actively and suc- 
cessfully engaged in contract building operations and the 
purchase and sale of real estate and conveyancing. He is 
a member of the School Board of the Twenty-first Section 

(0 John C. Shedwick. 



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of the City of Pliiladi-liiliia : a charter inrmln'r of the Powel- 
ton Chih (West riiilailoli)liia) ; a incml)cr of tlie P>oanl of 
Advisors of tlie Prcshyteriaii Home fur Widows and Single 
women (West P!iiladcli)Iiia). and a meml)er of the North- 
minster Presl)ytcrian Cluucli. In secret society circles he 
has hcen prominent, being a member of Oriental Lo<lge, No. 
3S4, A. F. & A. M.; University Chapter, No. 256, Royal 
Arch Masons; Aleta Tribe, No. 157, Improved Order of 
Red Men, and a member of Camp 270, Patriotic Order 
Sons of America, and of the Society of the Sons of St. 
George. On November 14, 1878, William John Shedwick 
married Florence Alrich. 

FLORENCE ALRICH. danghter of William S. Al- 
rich (horn February 8. 1825, died January 21, 1883) and 
Sarah Liken Fr>- Alrich (born February 5, 1828, died Jan- 
uary 28, 1857) was born in Philadelphia. In the paternal 
line, Mrs. Sihedwick traces direct descent from Peter Al- 
ricks.(i) — the Holland name in course of years was An- 
glosized to its present form — a prominent man of afifairs in 
the early settlement on the Delaware River, prior and sub- 
sequent to the English conquest of the territory. Florence 
A. Shedwiclt is a member of the Northminster Presbyter- 
ian Church, West Philadelphia. 

To the marriage of William John and Florence (.Al- 
rich) Shedwick were born: 

(86) Margaret Campbell Shedwick, born in Phila- 
delphia. August 25. 1879. 

(87) Marv I'Vy Shedwick, born in Philadelphia, June 
30. 1883. 

(88) Emily Hall Shedwick. born in Philadelphia, No- 
vember 17, 1885. 

(89) Isabel Hall Shedwick. born in Philadelphia, No- 
vember 17, 1885; died July 7, 1886. 

(90) William John Shedwick, born in Philadelphia, 
February 12, 1888. 

(91) Elizabeth Hall Shedwick. born in Philadelphia, 
October 7, 1893. 

(i) For account of Peter Alricks, see "Jacob Alricks and his nephew Peter 
Alricks" by BilwarJ A. Phcf. Wilmington Del., 1898; and "Peter Alricks and his 
descendants," by Edward A. Price. Proceedings of the Delaware County His- 
torical Society; Vol. I, page 17. 



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(40) GEORGE WASHINGTON SHEDWICK, soi. 
of John and Margaret (Campbell) ShecUvick, was born in 
Phiiadelphia, August i6, 1854, and was educated in the 
schools of Chester and Philadelphia. He married Elizabeth 
Smith. No children have been born to that union. George 
W. Shedwick occupies the old family residence, No. 3408 
Race street. Philadelphia. 

(41) HENRY CLAY SHEDWICK, son of John 
and Margaret (Campbell) Shedwick, was born in Philadel- 
phia, August 16, 1854. He was educated in the public 
schools of his native city, and under his father and his 
brother James' instruction, learned the trade of builder and 
contractor. When his father and brother abandoned active 
business in 1884, Henry Clay Shedwick and his brother 
William, formed a co-partnership under the title of William 
J. Shedwick & Brother. Much of the trade of the old firm 
was controlled by the new. Henry Clay Shedwick died at 
Philadelphia, July 10, 1886, in his thirty-second year. His 
death was the result of a peculiar accident. He was play- 
ing with his child and in stooping, the covering membrane 
of the bones of one of his legs was ruptured, which finally 
terminated in blood poisoning. Henry C. Shedwick was a 
member of Northminster. or First, Presbyterian Church of 
Mantua (West Philadelphia). 

Henry Clay Shedwick married ELEANOR FREE- 
LAND, a daughter of Albert Gallatin Freeland (born June 
17, 1828, died April 7, 1896) and Margaret Eleanor (Burk- 
hart) Freeland (born February 11, 1830: married May 8, 
1852; died June 3, 1900). 

To the marriage of Flenry Clay Shedwick and Eleanor 
Freeland were born : 

(92) John Albert Shedwick, born at Philadelphia, 
September 8, 1879. 

(93) Laura Freeland Shedwick. born at Philadelphia, 
August 26, 1880: died March t2, 1887. 

(94) Eleanor Freeland Shedwick, born at Philadel- 
phia, March 22, 1883. 

(95) Florence Shedwick, born at Philadelphia, April 
26, 1885. 



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(46) HARRY r.ARSKD CAMPBELL, son of Jo- 
seph aiul Martlia (Xeodliani) C:impl)cll, was l)()rii at Lci- 
pcrville. Pa., Aiif^usl ii, 1856. lie was educated in the 
piihhc schools of Cliester and was tlioronjjlily trained in 
the business of cotton manufacturiiiij. lie is now enjjaped in 
finisliing cotton goods and examining- cloths at Manayunk, 
Pa. On August 11, 1879. his twentv-tliird birthday, he mar- 
ried at Manayunk, SARAH ELIZAI^ETH NOBLE. His 
wife, a daughter of James Tykes NoI)le (l)orn at Yorkshire, 
England, December 24, 1816, died at Roxborough, Pa., No- 
vember 24, 1896) and .Ann Jane Warden (born at Philadel- 
phia, April 12, 1826. married at .Alexander, West Virginia, 
October 20, 1850), was born at NobJesville, Lancaster, Pa., 
.April 23, 1854. She is a member of the Methodist Episco- 
pal Church. 

To the marriage of Harry Garsed and Sarah Elizabeth 
(Noble) Campbell were born three children: 

(96) Walter Collins Campbell, boni at Manayunk, 
January 15, 1881. 

(97) Jessie Tunier Canipljcll, born at Manayunk, De- 
cember 3, 1882; died at the same place, December 12, 1891. 

(98) Harry Garsed Campbell, Jr., born at Manayunk, 
Pa., November 23, 1886. 

(47) BESSIE TURNER CAMPBELL, daughter of 
Joseph and .Adiaide (Turner) Campbell, was born at Ches- 
ter. Pa.. .April 24, 1862. She was married by Rev. James 
Walker, Rector of Calvary Church, Rockdale, January 16, 
1885, to Joseph Gibson Gilmore. Her husband, born at 
Oxford. Chester County, Pa.. Septeinber 4, 1858, was a son 
of James Gilmore (born at Oxford in 1835, died August 
26, 1879) "infl Mary .Ann Gilmore (born at Oxford, .April 
-3- '^35)- His father was a farmer and conducted a flour- 
ing mill at Oxford. 

To the marriage of Joseph Gilmore and Bessie Turner 
Campbell were born six children: 

(99) Joseph Campljell Gilmore, born at Rockdale, Pa., 
December 18, 1885. 

(100) Warren Gilmore, born at Rockdale, Pa., August 
18. 1887. 



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(loi) Adlaide Turner Gilmore, born at Rockdale, Pa., 
December 23, 1889. 

(102) Jessie Gilmore, born at Rockdale, Pa., Novem- 
ber 16, 1892. 

(103) Harry Gilmore, born at Rockdale, Pa., Novem- 
ber 6, 1896. 

(104) Helen Turner Gilmore. born at Media, Pa., June 
28, 1899. 

(53) EDWARD AUGUSTUS PRICE, son of Wil- 
liam Gray and Jane Eliza (Campbell) Price, was born in 
Chester. Pa., September 2, 1864. He was educated in pri- 
vate and public schools of that city, but before his gradua- 
tion, in 1880, Postmaster John .\. Wallace appointed him 
to a clerkship in the Chester Post Office, a position he re- 
tained until November 4, 1884, when he was elected to a 
clerkship in the First National Bank of ^^fedia. Pa. He 
subsecjuently filled the positions of bookkeeper and teller 
until September, 1902, when he was elected cashier of the 
institution, a position he resigned January i, 1907, to ac- 
cept the management of the Royal Storage Company, of 
Philadelphia. 

Mr. Price enlisted September 20, 1882, in Company 
B, Sixth Regiment, N. G. P., remaining therein for five 
years, when he was discharged at the expiration of his term 
of service. He is a member of Chester Lodge, No. 236, F. 
& A. M. ; Secretary of Chester Royal Arch Chapter, No. 
258, a member of Chester Commandery, No. 66, Knights 
Templars, and a member of the Pennsylvania Society Sons 
of the Revolution. November 16, 1892, he married Nellie 
Shaw, of Chester, Pa. 

NELLIE SHAW PRICE, a daughter of John Shaw 
(born at Lees, England, October 26, 1826, died at Chester, 
September 6, 1904) and Mary Buckley Shaw (bom at 
Lees, England, April 27, 1828, married May 19, 1851), 
was born at Bridgewater, Delaware County, Pa., October 4, 
1866. She was educated at the private schools of Chester 
and the Chester Academy, of which Prof. George Gilbert 
was principal. 



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The issue of this marriajje is: 

(105) Helm Shaw Trice, honi at Me<ha, Pa., Septem- 
ber 4, 1904. 

(54) Wil.l.IA.M (]\<\\ I'l-JUi:. J K..( I) .son of Wil- 
liam Clray and jane l-lliza (Cainpljell ) Price, was horn at 
Chester. Pa.. March 23, 1869. Jle was educated in the pub- 
lic and private schools of that city, and in 1887, was elect- 
ed to a clerksbi]) in the Delaware County Trust and Title 
Insurance Company, where he remained until 1S93. when 
he resigned to enfjac^e in larjje real estate operations in 
Chester. Philadel]>hia and Pittsburjj-h. Within a period 
of ten years he built a great inimber of dwellings in Phila- 
delphia, among which the Clinton .Apartment Mouse, is 
memorable: while in Pittsburgh he has built many rows of 
dwelling houses, designed for people of moderate means, 
together with flat and apartment houses, w-hose combined 
cost exceed $j, 000,000. 

In State Military matters. William G. Price. Jr.. has 
been exceedingly active. He enlisted May 26, 1886. in 
Company P.. Sixth Regiment. N. G. P. On April 13, 1S91, 
was commissioned Second Lieutenant, and on December 
20, 1892, First Lieutenant. On his removal to Philadel- 
phia, he was appointed First Lieutenant and Regimental 
.Adjutant of the Third Regiment. N. G. P.. July 9, 1893: 
commissioned Major. May 24. 1895. and Lieutenant Colo- 
nel, March 18, 1898. At the outbreak of the Spanish- 
.\merican War. he volunteered anfl with his command was 
mustered into the United States .service. May 11. 1898, as 
Lieutenant Colonel of the Third Pennsylvania Volunteer 
Infantry. The Regiment was ordered to Tampa, Florida, 
where on two occasions it had embarked on transports for 
forwarding to Cuba, but in both instances changes of orders 
held the regiment from being sent to the front. At the 
close of hostilities, Lieut. Colonel Price was on October 
22, 1S98, with his command, mustered out of the L'nited 
States service. He was commissioned Colonel of the Third 
Regiment Infantry, X. G. P., .\pril 21. 1901. 

(i) For sketch of Col. Wm. G. Price, Jr., see "Official History of the 
Militia and National Gu.ard. of P»nnsylvani.i. from the earliest period", bv Char- 
les J. Henderson, now in course of publication. 



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William G. Price, Jr., is a member of the Union 
League, of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Society Sons of 
the Revolution, Spanish War Veteran Association, and a 
number of other organizations. 

On June i, 1893, William Gray Price, Jr., married 
SALLIE PENNELL EYRE, the wedding being solemniz- 
ed in the Church of the Ascension, Philadelphia. Mrs. Price 
was bom in Chester, Pa., July 19, 1872, and is the daughter 
of Joshua Pusey Eyre and Martha Smith Pennell. On the 
paternal side, she is a descendant of Robert and .Ann (Smith) 
Eyre, who prior to 1697 had settled in Bethel, Chester (now 
Delaware) County, Pennsylvania.(i) On the maternal 
side she is a descendant of Robert Pennell, who settled in 
Middletown Township, in the same county, in 1685. She is 
the great, great granddaughter of Elisha Price, who was 
an active Whig of Chester County in the Revolutionar>^ 
War. 

To the marriage of Colonel William G. Price, Jr.,- and 
Sallie Pennell Eyre have been born : 

(106) Joshua Pusey Eyre Price, bom April 25. 1894. 

(107) William G. Price, 3rd, bom April 25, 1894, 
died at birth. 

(108) Terrill Eyre Price, bom November 9, 1895. 

(109) William Alrich Price, born February 22, 1897. 
(no) Martha Eyre Price, born August 3, 1899. 
(in) Elizabeth Price, born April 15, 1902. 

(112) Virginia Price, born August 7, 1903. 

(55) HOWARD CAMPBELL PRICE, son of Wil- 
liam and Jane Eliza (Campbell) Price, was born at Ches- 
ter, Pa.. April 15. 1872. He was educated in the private 
and public schools of that city. In 1896, he embarked in 
the manufacturing of bricks, in association with his broth- 
er, William G. Price, Jr. Early in 1898, he made a tour 
of Europe and was in Spain when the Maine was blown 
up in Havana Harbor. The news of that incident aroused 
an intense anti-American feeling in Spain. At the request 
of the United States Consul, a guard of Spanish soldiers 

(i) See chart of the descendants of Robert and Ann (Smith) Eyre, prepared 
by Wm. B. Broomall, Chester, Pa., 1904. For account of Eyre family, see Alar- 
tin's History of Chester, pages 49-53. 



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wore I'mnislied to llie party of Anicricaii tourists, which 
acted as an csctirt from tlie Alhaml)ra to Malapa, wlicrc a 
steamer was taken at 3 o'clock iti tlic morninp for Africa. 

In early life. Howard C". Trice sliuwed a decided lean- 
ing to a military career, lie enlisted November 11. 1890, 
as a private in Company H. Sixth Kctjiment, N. G. P., and 
Julv II. 1S93. was appointetl Cor])oral: .Aupiist 24, Battal- 
ion .\djntant and Jnly 7. 189^1, keijimental .\djutant. At 
the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, he was mus- 
tered into the military service of the United States, having 
been commissioned First Lieutenant and Adjutant, May 
5, 189S. The Sixth was attached to the Second Brigade. 
Second Division, Second Army Corps. I'or several weeks, 
duringf part of the time the Corps was at Camp .Mger. Vir- 
ginia, wailint:;- orders to be sent to the front. Howard C. 
Price acted as Assistant .Kdjutant Genera! of the Second 
Brigade. On the abrupt termination of the war he. with 
the Regiment, on October 17, 1898, was discharged from 
the service of the National Government. On the re-organ- 
ization of the National Guard of Pennsylvania, he was ap- 
pointed Captain and .\ide-de-Camp on the staff of General 
John W. Schall, commanding the First Brigade, N. G. P. 
April 10, 1899, he was appointed Second Lieutenant of In- 
fantry, U. S. A., and assigned to the Fifth Infantry. In 
May of that year, he reported to the regimental commander 
'at Santiago de Cuba, serving at that post until August 31, 
1900, when the Regiment was ordered to China. On Sep- 
tember 3, the transport MacPherson. with the Regiment 
aboard, went ashore on a reef of Fortune Island, of the 
Bahama group, and it was four days before the ship could 
be tlf>ated. .At San I'rancisco, the Regiment was ordered 
to the Philippines, reaching Manila Bay, October 25, 1900, 
where the command was transferred from the transport 
"Thomas" to "The Gorona," and landed at the beach off 
Vigan. Thence they marche<l to Banguead. Abra Prov- 
ince, to suppress the V'illamorc*. then in active hostilities. 
During the campaign, which lasted until May i. 1901, Com- 
pany D, to which Lietitenant Price was attached, was en- 
gaged in sixteen skirmishes and battles: the most import- 
ant being Batitio, February 2, 1901 ; Mount Pinegal, April 



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15. which continued for twenty-two liours ; Gwinhng Creek, 
April 20, and Mount Socal, April 22, in which engagement 
Lieutenant H. C. Price acquitted himself so creditably that 
his conduct was made a matter of special mention in Gen- 
eral Orders. ( i ) 

February 2, 1901, he was promoted and commissioned 
First Lieutenant; on June 5, was appointed Quartermaster 
and Commissary, assigned to the First Battalion. Novem- 
ber 22, he was assigned to the Third Battalion, Fifth In- 
fantry, and ordered South to join in what is known as 
General Bell's Campaign in Batangas and Laguna Prov- 
inces, against the noted insurgent, General Malvar. In 
that campaign, Lieutenant Price took an active part in se\- 
eral engagements, the most important being the battle of 
Lobo Alountain, JanuaiT 1, 1902. The Fifth was or- 
dered home. On July i, 1903, the transport "Kilpatrick" 
left Manila with the Fifth Regiment, returning to the Unit- 
ed States by way of Suez Canal, eighty days being consum- 
ed in the passage. Lieutenant Price is now stationed at 
Sagua la Grande, Santa Clara Province, Cuba. 

Lieutenant Howard Campbell Price is a member of 
the Pennsylvain"a Society, Sons of the Revolution, and a 
member of Chester Lodge, No. 236, A. F. & A. ]\L 

(58) JENNIE ROBB, daughter of E. T. Robb and 
Mary (Campbell) Robb. was born in Chester, Pa., Novem- 
ber 19, 1867. She was educated at private schools in Balti- 
more, in which city her parents then resided. May 31, 
1893, she was married in St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal 
Churcli. Chester, to Archiljald Ale.xander Cochran. She 
is a member of the New Century Club, of Chester. 

(i) ^'HEADQUARTERS U. S. FORCEi, PROVINCE OF ABRA, P. I. 
May 4, iqoi. 

"The thanks of the Coramandins Officers are extended to the officers and 
men for their attention to duty and the cheerful spirit in which orders have been 
executed. Where all have done well it is hird to pick out individual cases, hut 
special mention must be maJf of and attention paid to the work of Lieutenants 
E. J. Williams and II. C. Price, Co. D, 5th Inf. at and in vicinity of Pjiicay. 

By order of Major Bowen. 

(Signed) S. M. HACKNKY, 

Capt. and Adjutant. 5th Infantry. 



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Mr. Cudiran( i ) is a son (»f Jolin .iiul Catherine (Joliii- 
son) Cochran. His jialcriial ^jrain lf.it her, Joliii Cochran, 
was a native of the N'orth of Ircl.iiiil. wlio. ;it tlie l)e}.;iiniinj.j 
oi the nineteentli century, eniijjrateil to I'ennsylvania. set- 
thng; in tlie neij,'lil)orlioo(l of Cliester, where he married 
.\l)ii,'al lMi.q:Ie. His maternal jjraml father was Samuel 
Johnson, son of Sanniel Johnson, a noted astronomer. 

.\RCllir..\IJ) .\. COCllR.W. horn in Chester. I'a.. 
Xovemher Ji. iS()5, was educated at tiilhert's .\cadcmy anil 
in the puhlic schools of his native city. In i.S8j, he entered 
the law otVice of (.). l\. bickinson, and was admitted to the 
Bar of Delaware County May 2. itSSj. lie fi>rmed a part- 
nership with his preceptor. l)nt at the expiration of three 
years withdrew from the lirm ami estahlishcd himself in the 
individual practice of his i)rofession. City Councils, Octo- 
ber JI, iS^j, elected him .Assistant City Solicitor, and May 
I, of the year following,'. Solicitor, a position he still holds. 
He is a member of the State Convention of Cities of the 
Third Class of Pennsylvania, also a member of the commit- 
tee of that body on legfislation. He enjoys a large and con- 
stantly growing practice. Mr. Cochran is Secretary of the 
Franklin Huilding and Loan Association, a member and 
President of the Board ui Trustees of the First Presbyter- 
ian Church, a member of the Young Men's Republican 
Club, of Chester; a member of the Elks, the Penn Club (of 
Chester), Alpha Boat Club, Springhaven Country Club and 
other organizations. 

To the union of .Archibald A. and Jennie (Robb) 
Cochran were born : 

(113) Archibald Robb Cochran, born August 30, 
1894. 

(114) Donald Robb Cochran, born March 8, 1897. 

(59) ECCLES DONALD ROBB, son of E. T. an<I 
Mary (Campbell) Robb, was born at Baltimore, Md., Jan- 
uar>' to, 1880. In 1883. his parents returned to Chester, 
I'a., where when eight years of age, E. Donald Robb was 

( I ) Sketclies of Mr. Cochran will be founJ in the Blogr-iphical an J Historiail 
Cjxiopedia of Delaware County, pa({e 35-1. Genealogical anJ Personal .Wemuirsot 
Chester and Delaware County, Vol. II. pa^e 755. and "Who's Who in Pennsyl- 
vania" page 130. See Cochran family, Martin's Histor>' of Chester, page 39. 



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enrolled as a pupil in the private school of Mrs. John V. 
Rice, and continued in attendance at that institution, under 
the management of the Misses Rice, until he was fourteen 
},ears of age, when he was admitted to the Chester High 
School, graduating therefrom in the class of 1897. ^" the 
fall of the same year, he entered Drexel Institute, of Phil- 
adelphia, graduating from the Architectural Department in 
1899. ^^^ immediately secured employment as draughts- 
man in the otifice of Theopholis P. Chandler, of Philadel- 
phia. In April, 1902, he visited England, Scotland, the 
North of France, Holland and Belgium, making a special 
study of cathedral architecture in those countries. In the 
winter of that year, he was a prize winner in a course of in- 
struction at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts offered 
by the T. Square Club, of that city, of wdiich he was a mem- 
ber. He removed to New York, October, 1903, entering 
the office of Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, where he still 
continues. In 1905, he was awarded the third prize offer- 
ed by "The Brickbuilders' Magazine," the jury, in the 
award, stating that his plan in design, draw ing and general 
effect was the best that was offered, but as he had not re- 
stricted himself to the exact conditions of the competition, 
for that reason they awarded him the third prize. On sev- 
eral occasions he has received first and second mention at 
the New York .Atelier Club for architectural designs. In 
1903 and 1904, he took a special course of study under the 
"Society Beaux Arts Architecture," of New York. 

The illustrations of the improvements at the West 
Point Military Academy, which Mr. Robb made for the 
architects. Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson, have been repeat- 
edly published, appearing in the New York Commercial in 
1906, and the same year in the New York Sunday Times, 
Rei'iew of Rcz'ic^cs, Craftsman, Architecture, House and 
Garden, Architectural Revietv, and T. Square Club Cata- 
logue. 

On April 3, 1906, Mr. Robb made a second trip to Eu- 
rope, on the outward passage stopping at the Azores, then 
touring Spain, Tangier, Morocco, and from Gibraltar to 
Italy, where he visited Naples, Sorrento, Capri, Analfi, 
Poestum, Pompeii, and had unusual opportunity to observe 



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the cflccts of the eruption of X'csiivius at Rosco and Torre 
Aniniiiziata, wliidi had occurred only a sliort time before 
lie reached Naples. I le visiteil Rome, l-'iorcncc, Siena, Or- 
vieto. Pisa, X'enice, Milan, Lutjair and Lucerne, and other 
points in Switzerland. Thence to Paris, from which city 
he made tours to Chartres, P.ourj,'as, Ronen, the chateau 
country of I'rance. that he mijjht study the architecture of 
stately homes of the old I'Veuch nobility. In Knpland for 
a second time he visited London, later Canterbury, Windsor. 
O.xford, Warwick, Shrew sl)nry, Wrexham, Chester, Port 
Sunlight, to study the picturcstiue dwellings for the work- 
ing classes, for which that place is noted, thence to Liver- 
pool and h(Miie, which he reached August 13. after an ab- 
sence of four months ami ten days. 

On October 24, 1906, at Ilvde Park, ALissachusetts, 
E. Donald Robb married BLRTHA MOOAR. His wife, 
who is the daughter of James Farrington and Caroline 
(Howard) Mooar, was bom at Hyde Park, March 8, 1883. 
and was educated in the public schools of that town, gradu- 
ating from its High School in the class of 1901. In the fall 
of the same year Miss Mooar entered the Bryant & Stratton 
Business College, Boston, graduating from that institution 
in the class of 1903. 

(62) WALTER CAMPBELL BAKER, son of Capt. 
Frank S. and Annie Dodge (Campbell) Baker, was born Sep- 
tember 22. 1877, at Chester, Pa. He was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of that city and the Chester Academy, of which 
Prof. George Gilbert was principal. In 1892, he entered 
the counting room of Robert Wetherill & Company, engine 
and boiler builders, of Chester, continuing with that firm 
until 1893, \vhen he was elected junior clerk in the Dela- 
ware County Trust. Safe Deposit and Title Insurance Com- 
pany. He was promoted to the position of bookkeeper, 
which he filled until June 26, 1902, when he resigned to 
accept a commission as Second Lieutenant in the United 
States Army. 

November 17, 1896, he enlisted as a private in Com- 
pany C, Si.\th Regiment of Infantry, National Guard of 
Pennsylvania: was appointed a Corporal, July 13, 1897, 
and was honorably discharged by General Orders, April 28, 



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1898, wlien lie enlisted in ilie United States Volunteers on 
May 10. 1898, at the outbreak of the Spanish-American 
War. May 12, he was appointed a Corporal, and May 24, a 
Sergeant of Company C, Sixth Regiment, Pennsylvania 
Volunteer Infantry. From August 10 to September 4, he 
served as Color Bearer to Major General William M. Gra- 
ham (Brigadier General L'nitcd States Army), United 
States Volunteers, commanding the Second Army Corps. 
He was honorably mustered out of service with his Regi- 
ment, October 17, 1898, at the close of the Spanish-Ameri- 
can War, a \-eteran of that war. When the National Guard 
of Pennsylvania was reorganized after the war, he re-enlist- 
ed and was appointed I-'irst Sergeant of Company C. Sixth 
Regiment, serving as such until November 27, 1899, when 
he was appointed by Colonel James B. Coryell as First 
Lieutenant and Battalion Adjutant of the Sixth Regiment, 
serving in that office until May 26, 1902, whai he was ap- 
pointed Second Lieutenant, Artillery Corps, United States 
Amiy, to rank from September 23, 1901 (under the pro- 
vision of Act of Congress, .\pproved February 2, 1901). 
He was sworn into the service June 10, 1902, and on the 
26th of the same month, reported for duty at Fort Colum- 
bus, Governor's Island, New York Harbor. On October 
14, he was in command of the Forty-ninth Company, Coast 
Artillery, during its transfer to Fort Williams, Portland 
Harbor, Maine, remaining there until November 14, when 
he \\as ordered to join his company, the Fifty-second, at 
Fort Rodman, near New Bedford, Mass. ; shortly after- 
ward he was transferred to the One Hundred and First 
Company, at Fort Totten, Long Island Sound, New York. 
Mr. Baker has recently passed a successful examination for 
promotion to the rank of First Lieutenant, Field Artillery 
service. 

During the latter part (if 1903 he held the office of Ad- 
jutant of the Eastern Artillery District of New York. Dur- 
ing June and July of 1905, Lieutenant Baker was assigned 
to Fort IMonroe, Virginia, during tlic combined Army and 
Navy manoeuvres. Lieutenant Baker is a member of Ches- 
ter Lodge, No. 236, F. & A. M. 

(63) JAMES CAMPBELL BAKER, son of Capt. 



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I'ratik S. aiiil Amiic DiHlijc ( Caniplicll) Hakcr. was Nirii 
1 >cccinl)iT to, iSSd. at Clicstcr. I'a. 

Ho was oliicatcd at tlie Chester Acatlcmy, I'rof. George 
C'lilhert, principal. On Novenil)er J5. i8<j5, he entered the 
coiiiitin-j rt«)in nf l\(>I)crt Wctlierill & Company, Corhss 
cnj^iiic and lioilcr makers, Cliestcr, wlierc he remained niitil 
I'ebruary 15. U)02, wlien he resifjncd to accej)! a clcrksliip 
in the Piiil.idelplii.i X.itioiial Bank. Pliiladeipliia, remainiiifj 
with tliat hank until January 31, 1903, when he rcsifjncd to 
accejit a ]>osition of like character in the First National 
Bank, of Chester, Pa. On January 21, 1907, he was pro- 
moted to the position of paying teller and general l>Kjkkcci>- 
er of that institution. 

(64) JOSKPII HORACE BAKER, son of Capt. 
Frank S. and Annie Dodge (Campbell) Baker, was born 
February 4. 1883. at Chester, Pa. 

He was educated in the public schools of his native 
city and at the Chester Academy, Prof. George Gilbert. 
princii>al. He entered the office of the Delaware River Iron 
Slii])l)uiiding and Engine Works (Roach's shipyard), Oc- 
tt)ber .24. 1899, as junior clerk, and was later promoted to 
the iwsition of assistant bookkeeper, resigning the position 
on February 17, 1903, to accept a clerkship in the Dela- 
ware County National Bank, Chester, Pa., entering that 
employ I-^bruary r8, 1903. On July i, 1904, he was pro- 
motetl to bookkeeper. 

(65) FRANK N1:LLING BAKER, son of Capt. 
Frank S. and .Annie Dodge (Campbell) Baker, was born 
January 24, 1885, at Chester, Pa. 

He was educated in the public schools of his native 
city, graduating in the Commercial Course, in June, 1900, 
after which he took a post-graduate course until March 14. 
1901, when he entered the otVice of the Chester Manufac- 
turing Company, manufacturers of cotton goods, where he 
remained until December 7. of the same year, when he re- 
signed the position to accqU one with the Pennsylvania 
Railroad Company, in the Constmction Department, then 
located at Chester, and .actively engagctl in the work con- 
nected with the elevating of the railroad through the city. 

January 5. 1903. he was transferred with the Corps of 
Engineers to the .\tglen and Susquehainia Branch, with 



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headquartCTS at Quarry vi lie. Lancaster Count}-, Pa. He 
resigned from the Engineer Corps of the P. R. R. Com- 
pany, May, 1906, to accept a position with P. McManus & 
Company, railroad contractors, construction work at New- 
ton Hamilton, Mifflin County, Pa., where he is engaged in 
the office and outside, in charge of sections of the work. 

{72) WILLIAM HENRY GREEN, JUNIOR, (i) 
son of William Henry Green, Senior, and Elizabeth Chal- 
mer (Mackenzie) Green, was bom in Charlestown, Massa- 
chusetts, almost under the shadow of Bunker Hill Monu- 
ment, January 29, 1859. A child scarcely five years of age, 
when his father removed witii iiis family to Chester. Pa., 
practically the son's whole life has been identified with the 
latter place. He was educated in the public school of that 
cit\-, later attended the Chester Academy, on Second Street 
(subsequently purchased by the Board of Education and 
now known as the Gartside School), and completed a com- 
mercial course at Pierce's Business College, in Philadel- 
phia. .\t fifteen, he began his active business career as util- 
ity clerk in the office of the Vulcan Works, and as he fa- 
miliarized himself with the details of the business he was 
given supervision of outside contracts and jobs which his 
father could not personally direct. The experiences, to- 
gether with the self-reliance which came to the lad as the 
consequence of this trust gave him intimate knowledge of 
the business in all its practical details and ramifications 
that has been of great usefulness, when, at the death of his 
father, the responsibility of managing the industrial plant 
established by the elder William H. Green, fell to his direc- 
tion. .After the incorporation of the Vulcan Works, No- 
vember, 1892, William H. Green, Jr., was elected vice pres- 
ident of the company, and although the elder Mr. Green died 
May I, 1893, it was not until November i, 1893, that the 
vacant office was filled by the election of William H. Green, 
Jr., to the presidency of the compan)-, a position he resigned 
in 1906. 

Enjoying robust health and endowed with untiring 
energ\, Mr. Green has been enabled to maintain the record 



fn F<ir sketch of Willi.im H. Green, Jr., see BiOKraphical and Historical 
Encyclopedia uf Delaw.Tre Co., Pa., page 456; Genealogical and Personal Memoirs 
o( Chester and Delaware Co., Pa., vol. 11, page 52. 



75 

establisheil l>y its finiiidcr tlinl in all its forty-two years of 
history, it is tlic only iiidiistrial plant in what was formerly 
South Chester, that has. thnnif^h (^ood or had times, never 
shut down. i''vcn when an alisnrd strike in the moulding 
departnu'ut cri[)|)led the estalilishincnt for a perio<l of six 
weeks in 1 903. the Vulcan Works remainc<l oikmi, furnish- 
inpf em|)loynient to the men who had not fjonc on strike. 
William H. tlrcen. Jr.. and his i)rother, .\lfre»l T. (ire«i, 
refused to he coerced into recotjni/in{j a f(Kilish demantl. 
It was not a (luestion of wages, antl the men who had K""'C 
out asked to be taken hack, yieldinjj^ their contention — ihc 
restoration of a discharged hand. 

William H. (irecn. Jr.. is a niemher of the Si>ciety 
of St. lleorge of St. Luke's i'piscopal Church, of Chester, 
and was for many years the librarian of its Sunday School. 
He married at Chester, I'a., luiima Hamor Taylor. 

EMM.A HAMOR T.WLOR CiRLKN.l i ) daughter 
of William Taylor (born at Wawa. Delaware County, I'a., 
Augtist 31. iS^33) and Susena Hamor ( l)orn October J4. 
1830, died July 12. 1886), was born at Chester. I'a., .\pril 
3. 1856. She was educated in the public schools of that city 
and was married at Chester to William Henry Green. Jr., 
September 5. 1882. She was a memlicr of St. Luke's b'pis- 
copal Church and of the Xew Century Club, of Chester, Pa. 
Mrs. Emma Hamor (Taylor) Creen died at Chester, Pa., 
February 8, 1901. To this marriage were born: 

(115) Ellwood Garrett (Jrcen. born at C'hester. Pa., 
August 6. 18S3. 

(116) William Henry Green. Ix^rn at Chester, Sep- 
tember lo, 1884; died September 27, 1884. 

(117) Margaret Hamor Green, boni at Chester, Sep- 
tember 24. 1885. 

(118) Henrv Burdette Green, born at Chester, Octo- 
ber 7, 1886: died March 18, 1887. 

(119) Malcolm Mackenzie Green, \x>m at Chester. 
July 3, 1890. 

(73) MARGARET JANE GREEN, daughter of 
William Henry Green. Senior, and Elizabeth Chalmers 
(Mackenzie) Green, was lK)rn at Charlestown. Mass., De- 

fi) A sketch of Joseph Tuylor. Mns. Kmm.i H. Gre«n's {rand(ii»h«r «pj*jif» 
in AshmeaJ's Histur>' of Debwarv Cuunty. Pa., page 413. 



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cember 3, i860. She was educated at tlie public school in 
Chester, Pa., and after graduation, entered her father's of- 
fice, the Vulcan Works, in a clerical capacity, in which she 
discharged the duties of this position with fidelity and to 
the entire satisfaction of her employer. In 1893, when the 
Vulcan Works was incorporated, she was elected Treasurer 
of the Company, an office she still retains. Margaret J- 
Green became a member of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, of 
Chester, and was one of the first in membership of the 
New Century Club, of Chester. Her literary taste leans to 
scientific and argumentative investigation, geographical 
and historical research, but she enjoys narratives of travel 
and occasionally romances from the pen of leading novel- 
ists of the day and the works of masters of English litera- 
ture. 

(76) ALFRED TENNYSON GREEN, son of Wil- 
liam Henry and Elizabeth Chalmers (Mackenzie) Green, 
was born in Chester, P'a., March 26, 1867. He was edu- 
cated at the public schools of his native city and subse- 
quently learned the trade of machinist at the Vulcan Works, 
owned and controlled by his father. After he attained his 
majority he was employed in the draughting department 
at Roach's Shipyard, Chester, Pa., and later, in the same 
capacity at the United States Navy Yard, at Brooklyn. 
\\"hen the Vulcan ^Vorks was incorporated, in 1892, he be- 
came the general superintendent, which position he still 
fills. In 1893, he was elected Vice President of the Vulcan 
Works, and in 1906, the President of the Company. 

Alfred T. Green, at Chester, Pa., April 16, 1895, ^^.r- 
ried LIZZIE McKEEVER MINSHALL, daughter of 
William Anderson Minshall (born at Chester, Pa., IMarcli 
25, 1822, died January 29, 1885) and Jane (Miller) Min- 
shall (born at Rising Sun, Maryland, October 16, 1827, 
died February 16, 1890). Mrs. A. F. Green, in the paternal 
line, is a descendant of Thomas Minshall, who purchased a 
tract of 380 acres from Penn, in England, and which Min- 
shall had conveyed to him in March, 1681, in Nether Provi- 
dence, (i) He gave the land, in 1698, on which (he Provi- 
dence Friends' Meeting House is built. (2) 

(i) Ashmead's History of Delaware County, Pa. Page 653. 
(2) Ashmead's History of Delaware County, Pa. Page 655. 



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Alfroil r. (irecii .iiid I.iz/ic M. ( ircrii have one cliild : 
(i_'o) Dorotliy Minsliall (irccii, licrii at Chester. ( )<• 

toiler i('\ iS()f'>. 

(j~) l.ll.I.li-: CIIUISIIXA (iRl'.l'.X. .laiinhtcr of 
W'ilham II. and Khzahetli Chalmers (Mackenzie) Green, 
was born at Chester. I'enna.. I'eliruary ^ 1S71. She was 
educated in tlie puiilic sciiools of Soulli Ciicster I'oronj^Ii. 
gradiiatingf from tiie Ilicfli School in tlic class of 18M7. after 
which she was a stutlent at the Pennsylvania State Normal 
School, at West Chester, for two years, severing her con- 
nection with that iiistitntion licfore fjrailnation to accept a 
confiilential position in a leading- hnsincss house in Xew 
York. To ([ualify herself for this place she took a five 
months' course at Prickett's Business Colleije. in Philarlel- 
phia. So diligently did she apply herself to the studies 
that she graduated therefrom in three months, covering 
Sejitember to December 15. iSSc). Although an expert sten- 
ographer and typewriter, her duties have always been of a 
character which carried with them responsibilities involv- 
ing matters of trust and confidential nature. .\t jirescnt she 
is emploved bv the Abercrombe &• Fitch Companv. of New 
York. 

(80) EDXA J. GREEN, daughter of John Jacob 
and Edna Townsend (Roberts) Green, was born at Ches- 
ter. Pa.. July 21. 1865. She was married at Philadelphia, 
.August 21. 1889, to \\'illiam E<lwarfl Adams, son of .An- 
drew and Dorothy Adams, of DaytoM. Ohio. To this mar- 
riage was born : 

(121) .\ndrew Earl Adams, born at Philadelphia, Pa., 
August 6. 1890. 

(81) MARY CAMPBELL CiREEX, daughter of 
John Jacob and Edna Townsend ( Roberts) Green, was 
horn at Chester. Pa., .\ugust 6. 1867. At Phila<lelphia, 
November i, 1893, she was married to Waller Thomas 
MacDonald. son of John and Grace MacDonald. To tliis 
marriage has been l)orn : 

(122) Grace Elma MacDonald. born at Philadelphia. 
June 21, 1897. f''^<^l June 22, 1897. 

(123) Walter Earl MacDonaM. Ix.rn at Philadelphia. 
December 15, 1902. 



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ADDENDUM. 



The data for the following sketch was received at so 
late a time tiiat it could not be inserted in the proper place in 
this publication. See No. lo, page 9. 

(10) SARAH CAMPBELL, daughter of John and 
Ann (Hallam) Campbell, became the wife of Ralph Bar- 
nett, of Stockport, England. He was born at that place in 
1829: died there in 1885, and is buried in Hyde Church 
Yard. To that marriage were bom three children : 

(10^) INIary, who died when a child of four years. 

(ioj4) Thomas (ist), named for his paternal uncle, 
died in infancy. 

(10^) Thomas (2nd), born at Stockport. England, 
December 2, 1858. When sixteen, the lad was employed 
in the card room at the mill of his uncle, Joseph Hallam, 
and a year later found a like place in the Woodward's Mills, 
of which his uncle, George Campbell, was the superintend- 
ent. In the fall of 1880, Thomas Barnett came to the 
United States where, under the instruction of his uncle, Jo- 
seph Campbell, then of Manayunk, he learned beaming, and 
later entered the employment of William Woods & Sons, 
at Twenty-fourth and Hamilton streets. Philadelphia, 
where he remained for six years. He w'as in charge of the 
beaming department of the Patton, Allinson & Jones Mills, 
at Twelfth Street and Washington Avenue, when that 
firm failed. A short time afterwards, Mr. Patton person- 
ally started up the plant, but as Mr. Barnett was offered a 
much more lucrative position by Albert Crenshaw, who 
had taken the Cam])bell Mills, at ]\Ianayunk, he accepted 
the place. These mills, which were started with 787 looms, 
were soon totally destroyed by fire. Mr. Barnett was placed 
in charge of the beaming room of the Aberfoyle Mills, at 



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Chester, where lie rciii.iiiied tw<» years, wlicii he .icccptc*! a 
like ixisition in the Caleh J. Milne & Sons' Mills, I'hiladel- 
pliia. Soon after, he was i>rt>ninie<l to the siiperintendcncy 
of the entire works, a ])osition ihc duties of which he is 
now hllingf. 

Thomas Barnett is a f;ra<Uiatc of the Philadelphia Tex- 
tile School, a nioniher of its Alnnini Society, a iiieniher of 
the Society of St. (icorfje, of Tenncson I.odj.je of Scjns of 
St. George, of Roxhonni^jh Lodj^e. \o. 135. .X. !•'. & .\. M.; 
of Hannoiiy Chapter. Royal .\rch Masons, and .\rtisans' 
Order of Mutual Protection, all of which are of Philadel- 
phia. On .\ugust 2> 1896, Thomas Harnett marrictl Ellen 
Lord. 

ELLEN LORD, daughter of Frederick ami Betty 
Lord, was born at Heyward, Lancashire, Enpland. \ovem- 
ber, 1853. When a child of ten. she accomi)aiiied her par- 
ents to this country, and located in Manayunk. where her 
father is engaged in the dry goods business. 



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THE FAMILY AR.MS. 

The Campbells ot Pennsylvania are of the junior branch 
of the Lochnell line of the house of Argyle. It traces descent 
from Duncan Campbell, second son of John Campbell, Duke 
of Arg>ie, who was born in 1596. 

Arms quarterly — First and fourth gyroung 8 az. and or. 
Second, a boar's head couped ppr. 

The Dodge family of County Kent, Stopsworth, County 
Chester, Suffolk and Manangton, County Norfolk. 

Arms — Barry of six or. and sa., over all or, chapel gu. 
and an eye az. weeping and dropping or. 

Crest — A demi-sea dog az., collared, finned and purtled 
or. 



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KRRATA 

Paso aL', line second from bottom, for frigate "San Jacicto" 

read San Jacinto. 
Page +6, line 29, for "Boston" Navy Yard read Cilarle^tl)n. 
Page 5-1, line 12, for "William and Abii;aii Rogers" read 

William and Abigail Rogers Branin. 
Page 70, line third from bottom, for "Minshall had conveyed 

to him" read "surveyed." 



INDEX. 



Abbott. Hon. I-con 33 

Abcrfoyle MIHs, Chester 78 

Adams, Andrew 77 

Adams. Andrew Earl 77 

Adnms. Dorothy 77 

Adams, William FMword 77 

Aldrlch. Peter 25 

Alrlch, Sarah Liken Fry 61 

Alrlch. William S 61 

ArkwrlKht .Mills 23 

Arlington Mills 23 

Arms, Description of the 

DodKe-Campliell Family 80 

A.Hhmead. Kmma Campbell IB 

Sketch of her life 31 

Ashmead, Henry Graham..., 

31. 32. 33, 34. 35. 36 

Ashmead. John 31 

Ashmead. John Wayne, notice 

of 32. 33 

Ashmead. 2d. John Wayne. 

notice of 36 

Aston Mills 23 

Aston Rldse Seminary 24,27 



Baker. AlilRnll Vernon n:nKlo..37 

Bakor, .\nn HInk.son 37 

Baker. Annie nodite Campbell.. 15 

Sketch of her life 37 

Baker. David 27 

Baker. Frank NellInK 38 

Sketch of 73. 74 

Baker, James Campbell 38 

Sketch of 72, 73 

Baker. John 32. 37 

Baker. Joseph Horace 38 

Sketch of 73 

Baker. Perclphor 37 

Baker. 2d. Perclphor 38 

naker, Sarah Neldo NelllnK...37 
Baker. Wolter Campbell 38 

Sketch of 71. 72 

Barnett. Kllen Lord 79 

Burnett. Mary 78 

Barnett. Ralph 7, 78 

Bamett, 1st. Thomoii 78 

Barnett. 2d. Thomas 78 

Sketch of 78, 79 

Battle of Antlctam 65 



82 



Battle of Batltio 67 

Battle of Gettysburg 56 

Battle of Gwinling Creek 6S 

Battle of Lobo Mountain 68 

Battle of Mount Pinegal 67 

Battle of Mount Socal 6S 

Battleship Oregon 29 

Baring, Purchase of land from 

Baron 20, 21 

Bickham Family mentioned. .. .25 

Bickham. Sarah 25 

Borgia, Angellos 5S 

Borgia, Ann 5S 

Branin, Frances Ro.sana 54 

Branin, Isaac Porter 51 

Branin, Michael 54 

Branin, Nathaniel 54 

Branin, William 54 

Broad Street Mills, building of. 11 

C. 

>_ampaign. The, a political pa- 
per 34 

Campbell, Adelaide 24 

Campbell, Angelina Garsed.... 7 

Sketch of 14, 15 

Campbell, Ann Turner 6 

Campbell, Benjamin G, 7 

Campbell, Cora Gar.sed 24 

Campbell, Bessie Turner 24 

Sketch of 63 

Lampbell, Elizabeth Hubley 

Mowry 15 

Sketch of 45 

Campbell, Ellen 15 

Campbell, Eliza 6 

Campbell, EUwood Bearing. .. .24 

Campbell, Fanny 5 

Campbell, Fannie Amanda 15 

Sketch of 40, 41 

Campbell, George 7, 78 

Campbell, Harry Garsed 24 

Sketch of 63 

Campbell Homestead. .15, 25, 41 
Campbell, James 6 

Sketch of. 7, S, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 

Campbell, James Alvan 40 

Campbell, James A. G 15 

Sketch of 41, 42, 43, 44 

Campbell, Jr., James Alfred 

Garsed 45 

Campbell, Jane Eliza 7 

Campliell. Jane Eliza 23 

Camplicll. Jessie Amanda 34 

Campocll, Katherine Harper... 40 
Campbell, Katherine Rebecca 

Harper 15 

Sketch of 40 

CamplK-ll, Margaret 7 

Campbell, Margaret Mowry 45 

Campbell. Mary 6 

Campbell, Mary 7 

Qampbell, Mary Elizabeth 23 



Campbell, John 6 

Account of 6, 7 

Campbell, John 7 

Campbell, John Garsed 15 

Sketch of 3S, 39 

Campbell, John Needham 24 

Campbell, John Richai'dson. . . .45 

Campbell, Joseph 5 

Campbell, 2d, Joseph 6 

Campbell, Joseph 7 

Sketch of 22, 23 

Campbell, Joseph Dodge 15 

Campbell, Sarah 7 

Notice of 78 

Campbell, Sarah Elizabeth 

Noble 63 

Campbell. Walter Collins 63 

Campbell. William Taylor 40 

Campbell Clan badge, Myrtle 

(note) 48 

Camp Gains. Marcus Hook.... 25 

Canton Sugar Refinery 30 

Capitol Extension at Wash- 
ington 29 

Centennial E.\position 39 

Chandler, Theopholis P 70 

Cheney, Amos 28 

Cheney, Maria (Westervelt) . . . 29 
Chester Academy.. 37, 64, 71, 73 
Chester Academy, The Old.... 74 

Chester Evening News 34 

Chester Freight Line 37, 38 

Chester, Its industrial beginning 8 
Chester Seminary for Young 

Ladies 31, 37 

Cholera Epidemic of 1S32 28 

Civil War, Opening struggle 

of the 32 

Llub, T-Square 70 

Cochran. Abigal Engle 69 

Cochran. Archibald Alexander, 

Sketch of 69 

Cochran. Archibald Robb 69 

Cochran. Catherine Johnson... 69 

Cochran Donald Robb 69 

Cochran. Jennie Robb 31 

Sketch of 68 

Cochran, the elder, John 69 

Cochran, John. 21, 41, 69 

Continental Cotton Mills.. 17. 49 
Columbia House, Chester, 

Purchase of, cy James 

Campbell 9 

Corrie. Capt. George J 56 

Coryell. Col. James B 72 

Courier, Mary 31 

Curry, William 19 

D. 

Dallas, Hon. George M 32 

Daughters American Revo- 
lution, Delaware County 
Chapter , 45 



83 



Nn.Hsnu Clmptor. Cnrndi-n, 

N. J io 

DlrklnHon, O. n fii) 

Discovery of Knlnion Ulvm- 

nnil Gold Rluff :'r. 

Polihiiis. J. \V !> 

Doilnp. Robert u 

KotlKe. Mary, older G 

Doduro. AInry. younger 5 

Don» Potlro. Kmiteror of Bra- 
zil. DliiliiB with iO. :•« 

Donaldson, llonry U 31, 37 

DouBhiNS. Krodi-rlck. cniilkor 

In riohli's shipyard 2.S 

Dyer. John G 25 

S. 

Kastmnn, Maria L 27 

Eccles, Thomas. & Co .TO 

KdBar. Ann Johani .'■ I 

KdKiir. Samuel J 54 

Edsmont Township. Origin of 

name 32 

Elliot, ton & Co., Account 
of how Col. Campbell secur- 
ed a position 11 

Eyre, Ann Smith GG 

Eyre, Joshua Pusey GG 

Eyre. Martha Smith Pennell..fiG 
Eyre. Rubert Gfl 

P. 

Flower, llonrlotia Graham. .. .."iS 

Flower. Richard 33 

Flower William 31 

Fort Columbus, Governor's Is- 
land. N. T 72 

Fort Monroe. Va 72 

Fort Rodman. New Bedford, 

Mass 72 

Fort Totten. Long Ilsland. N. Y.72 
Fort Williams. Portland. Mass. .72 
Fortune Island, Transport 
MacPherson goes ashore on.. 67 

Freeland, Albert Gallatin 62 

Freeland, Margaret Eleanor 

Burkhart G2 

Fuller, David 33 

a. 

Garsed. John 14 

Garsed, Joshua 22 

Garsed. Richard 24 

Gibbons, Henry 31 

Gilbert, Prof. George... 64, 71, 73 

Gilmore, Adialdc Turner 64 

GUmore, Harry 64 

Gilmore, Helen Turner 64 

Gil more, Jessie 64 

Gilmore. Joseph Campbell 63 

Gilmore, Joseph Gibson 63 

Gilmore. Warren 63 

Globe Iron Works. Boston 46 

Gold Discovery In California. . .25 



Oraluim, Judfc-o Hunry Ilalu 33 

<irahain. l\ S. A.. MaJ.-Gen. 

William .M 72 

Green, AlfriMl Tcnny«on 48 

.skci.li ,if 7a 

Ori'en. Anii-llu JtobertH Urunln.18 

Sketch i.f 04 

Green. Iiorothy MInnhnll 77 

Green. Eilna Jane 60 

Nolico of 77 

Green. Ellwciml aarri'lt 74 

Green, Elnia Townsenil 50 

Green, Elnia Totmsend RoIhtIh.IH 

Skitcli «( IK, 50 

Green. Emma Ilaniur Taylor.. 75 

Green, Eva St. Clair 60 

Green Family, hoc nolo 16 

Green, George 16 

Green, George Thomaa Reld 

List 4» 

Green, itenry Burdette 75 

Green. James Campbell i* 

Sketch of 50. 61 

Green, Jane 18 

Green, Jam' Campbell 6 

Sketch of 16 

Green, John Jacob IS 

Sketch of 49 

Green, Laura Christina 48 

Green, John Jacob 50 

ureen, Llllle Christina 48 

Sketch of 77 

Green, Lizzie McKeever Mln- 

shall 76 

Green, Malcolm Mackenzie 75 

Green. Margaret Homor 75 

Green. Margaret Jane 48 

Sketch of 75, 76 

Green. Dr. Mary Jane 18 

Sketch of 51 

Green. Mary Campbell 50 

Sketch of 77 

Green. Moses 16 

Sketch of 16. 17 

Green. Dr. Moses Henry 18 

Sketch of 52. 53, o4 

Green. William Henry 17 

Sketch of 45. 46, 47, 48 

Green, Jr., William Henry 48 

Sketch of 75 

Green, Sarah 18 

Green. Sarah 50 

Green. Sarah Amelia 18 

Green Street, Chester, Origin 

of name 49 

Grubb, John 31 

K. 

Hallam. vVnn 6 

Hallam. Joseph 6 

llallam. Joseph 78 

Hallam, Mary 6 

Hanior. Susena 75 

Hill, F. Stanhope 34 



84 



Homestead Riots 43 

Hodil, Kev. George 31. 37 

Hoiij4"hton, James 7 

Hubley, Frederick 45 

Revolutionary services of 

(note) 45 

Huntingdon, Rev. Benj. S...24, 27 

I. 
Indians of Queen Charlotte's 
Island 2fi 

J. 

JaU at Ctiester. James 
Campbell purchases old.. 10, 11 

Johnson, elder, Samuel, noted 
astronomer 69 

Johnson, Samuel 6;i 

Johnson, William Shaler 34 

Lamokin Mills 31) 

Lapidea Manor, country seat 

of Hon. W. C. Sproul 3fi 

Larkin Grammar School 22 

Larkin, Jr., John 11, 4S 

Led ward, James 11 

Leiper, Hon. Georgre G S 

Leiperville Mills, account of.8-'J 

Fire at (note) 9 

Lewis, Hon. Ellis 32 

Liberty Mills 49, 57 

Burning: of 57 

Loss of Naval Vessels, ■Wateree.29 

Suwanee 30 

San Jacinto 32 

Lord, Betty 79 

Lord, Frederick 79 

M. 

McClure's "Recollections," Col. 

A. K 32 

MacDonald. Grace 77 

MacDonald. Grace Elma 77 

MacDonald, John 77 

MacDonald, Walter Earl 77 

MacDonald. Walter Thomas 77 

MacKenzie Clan Badge, Deer's 

Grass (note) 48 

MacKenzie, Elizabeth Chalmers. 17 

Sketch of 48 

MacKenzie, John 48 

MacKenzie, Margaret Taylor... 48 
Marriage made odd relation- 
ship (note) 22 

Mcll vain, Harry 49 

McKeever, Harriet B 32 

McKinley, Margaret 32 

..u-Kinlev, William 32 

Meigs, U. S. A., Gen. M. C 29 

Mercer, Thomas 32 

Mifflin, Benjamin 32 

Mifllin, Gen. Thomas 32 



Miller. Lewis 30 

Miller & Allen's Engine Works. 30 

Mills, ^iberfoyle 78 

Arkwright 23 

Arlington 23 

Aston 23 

Broad Street 11, 22 

Continental Cotton 17, 49 

Lamokin 39 

Leiperville 8, 9, 22 

ijiberty Cotton 49 

Pioneer 10, 11, 17 

Standard Spinning 42 

Stenton 40 

Minshall, Jane Miller 76 

Minshall, William Anderson. .. .76 

Military Academy, Cliester 20 

Monitor Lehigb 29 

Monitor Sagamore 29 

Mooar. Caroline Howard 71 

Mooar, James Farrington 71 

Mowry, Christian 45 

Revolutionary services of 

(note) 4 5 

Mowry, Katharine Richardson. .45 

Mowry. Philip 45 

Mowry, Rev. Pliilip H 45 

Mowry, Dr. Robert Bruce 45 

K. 

Nav'y Yard, Brooklyn 76 

Navy Yard, Charleston. .. .48, 50 

Needham, Ann 23 

Needham. Martha 22 

Sketch of 23 

Needham, Samuel 23 

Sketch of 23 

Nether Providence Meeting 

House 76 

New Century Club, Chester. . 

25, 28, 31. 41. 68, 75. 76 

Noble, Ann Jane Warden 63 

Noble, James Tykes 63 

O. 

Obituary of James Campbell 
from Delaware County Re- 
publican 12, 13, 14 

P. 

Panic of 1857 12 

Parades, Cleveland's and Har- 
rison's Inaugural 43 

Constitutional Centennial. . . .43 

Presidential Centennial 43 

Chicago World's Fair 43 

Park Commissioners. Chester.. 44 

Patterson. Gen. Robert 12 

Pennsgrove. now Glen Riddle. . 7 
Pennsylvania Bi-Centennial 

Association, Chester 34 

Penn Steel Casting Company.. 30 
Pennell, Robert 66 



85 



Ponnsylvnnin Normiil School, 

V\'eat Chester "7 

PennHylvrtnln KnllronJ. Klo- 

vntlnK of. In Cheater 73 

Phillips. John S 7 

Phlpps, Conviction of MuJor....5S 

Pioneer Mllln. Account of 10 

StnrtInK of U 

Enlnrgemcnt of 11 

Pennsylvania Military Acail- 

emy 1»7 

Presbyterian Home for Wid- 
ows and Single Women, 

Philadelphia 61 

Porter. Elizabeth ri< 

Porter. Mary f'-* 

Porter. Thomas Bl 

Postmasters of Chester, 

H. G. Ashmead 37 

Robert Chad wick 37 

Joseph R. T. Coates 37 

John L. Garrett 37 

Thomas H. lllKKlns 37 

William G. Price 1!7 

John A. Wallurr 64 

Powell. Charles L 22 

Powell. William 23 

Powclton Club. Philadelphia. r>S. Gl 

Price. Edward Augustus 27 

Sketch of 64 

Price. Edward A.. Article on 
Jacob Alrlcks and his 
nephew. Peter Alrlcks (note) 25 

Price, EUsha 66 

Price, Elizabeth 6G 

Price, Helen Shaw 65 

Price Homestead. Headquar- 
ters of Gen. Galnea In 1814.. 25 

Price. Howard Campbell 27 

Sketch of 66. 67. 68 

Price. Jane Eliza Campbell 15 

Sketch of 24 

Price. John C 26 

Price. Joshua Pusey Eyre 66 

Price. I^llllan Campbell 27 

Price, Lewis Eugene 27 

Price, Martha Eyre 66 

Price, Nellie Shaw 64 

Price, Sallle Pennell Eyre 66 

Price, Major Samuel AJdrlch...2o 

Price, Terrlll Eyre., 66 

Price, Virginia 66 

Price, William 9 

Price, William Aldrlch 66 

Price, William Gray 

Sketch of 25. 26, 27 

Price, Jr., William Gray 27 

Sketch of 66, 66 

Price, 3d., William G 66 

Q- 

Que.n Charlote's Island, In- 
dians of 26 



ItaniNcy. Jamen, The expatri- 
ated Tory 20 

Kandall. H<m. Archbolil 32 

Itenney. Son & Archbold 29 

Hepublltan. Extract from 

Delaware County S 

(Note) 9. JO 

UhiMles & Uro,. John H 23 

HIcharilHiin. Henrietta Hul>ley.45 

Hlchardson. WtUlani 45 

Uoach, John 29 

Roach's Shipyard 73 

Robl). Alexander 2S 

Rc.bli, n.rtha Mooar 71 

Rubb. Eecles Donald 31 

Sketch of G-l. 70. 71 

Robb. Eliaklm Tapper, Sketch 

of 29, 30 

Rnbb. John Alexnnder 28 

is'otlce of 28 

Rohb. Mary Campbell 15 

Sketch of 27. 28 

Robb. Mary Campbell 30. 31 

Revolution. Sons of the. . 64. 66, 68 

Roberts. Henrietta iJeUen 49 

Roberts. Howard 49 

Rogers. Abigail 64 

"Roman." steamship 38 

Rush. Ann 31 

Rush, Dr. Benjamin 31 

Rush, Captain John 31 



8. 



Salmon River and Cold Bluff. 

Discovery of 26 

Schall, Col. John W 43 

Scott, Irving Murray 29 

Sellers, Samuel 31 

Sharpless Ann 49 

Sharpless, the settler, John.... 49 

Shaw. Mary Buckley 64 

Shaw. John 64 

Shaw. William 23 

Shedwlck. Catharine Borgia. 

Sketch of 58, 59 

Shedwlck. Eleanor Freuland 62 

Shedwlck. Emily Hall 61 

Shedwlck. Elizabeth Hall 61 

Sheilwlck. Elizabeth Smith 62 

Shedwlck. Emma 21 

Shedwlck. Florence Alrlch, 

Sketih of 61 

Shedwlck. Florence 62 

Shclwlck. George Washington. .22 

Sketch of 62 

Shedwlck, Henry Clay 22 

Sketch of 62 

Shedwlck. Isabel Hall 61 

Shedwlck. James Campbell. .. .21 

Sketch of 54, 56, 56. 57, 58 



86 



Shed wick, John 6 

Sketch of 19, 20, 21 

Shedwick, John Albert G2 

Shedwick. Joseph 21 

Shedwick, Laura Freeland 62 

Slu'dwick, Margaret Campbell. 6 

Sketch of IS, 19 

Shedwick, Margaret Campbell. .Gl 

Shedwick, Mary Fry 61 

Sliedwlck, Mary Jane 21 

Sketch of 59, 60 

Shedwick, William John 22 

Sketch of 60, 61 

Shedwick, 2d, William John... 61 
Shedwick Street, Philadelphia. .21 

Sickel.s, Gen. Daniel E 56 

Snowden, Gen. George R 43 

Spanish American War 

43. 44, 65. 67 
Standard Spinning Company. 

Chester 42 

Stenton Mills 40 

Stopford. Ann 16 

Stopford. Charles 16 

Stopford. Martha IS 

St. Paul's Yard, Packwood. 

England. Grave stone to 

Hallam family (note) 6 

Swan Hotel 10 



T. 

Taylor, Jonathan 9 

'r.-iylor. Joseph (note) 75 

Taylor. William 74 

Tredigar Iron Works 46, 50 

Tupper, Abigail 28 

Tupper, Martin Farquhar 28 

Turner. Adelaide 22 

Sketch of 24 

Turner, Mary 14 

V. 

Vigilant Committee of San 

Francisco 26 

Vulcan Works, Baltimore 29 

Vulcan Works. Chester 

30, 47, 52, 74. 75. 76 

W. 

Wade Family, Mention of 25 

Walter, y. S 24 

Warner. Rebecca Frances 36 

Warner. Capt. Richard N 36 

Wayne, Oapt. Anthony 32 

Wayne, "Mad Anthony" 32 

Wostervelt, Maria 28 

Wheeler, Col. Frank 56 

Wiiue Post, No. 25. G. A. R 27 

Williamson, David 32 

Women's Medical College, 

Philadelphia 51 

Wynans, Ross 29 



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